The Library of Congress' photosets on Flickr. 100 Abandoned Houses. America Before Pearl Harbor - Early Kodachrome Images. Color presents an entirely different image. This is a photograph of Faro and Doris Caudill, farmers in Pietown, New Mexico. They lived in a dugout and struggled to survive on Resettlement Administration land. As the 1930s came to a close, Kodak came out with Kodachrome film – the first commercially viable color film available to the general public. In 1937 and 1938, the colors were still not stable and accurate, but by 1939 Kodachrome was producing color images of remarkable precision.
Now, not just anybody could buy this film. Urban America New York City was the metropolis of America. Times Square was the happening place. Washington was a city of contrasts – the New Deal having extended its influence across the nation. But it was still very much a Southern city – especially if you were African American. Chicago was the transportation, food, and manufacturing center of the country.
Rural America Modernization. Captured: Color Photography from Russia in the Early 1900’s | Plog — World news photography, Photos. Posted Oct 21, 2009 Share This Gallery inShare58 The photographs of Russian chemist and photographer, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, show Russia on the eve of World War I and the coming of the revolution. From 1909-1912 and again in 1915, Prokudin-Gorskii travelled across the Russian Empire, documenting life, landscapes and the work of Russain people.
His images were to be a photographic survey of the time. He travelled in a special train car transformed into a dark room to process his special process of creating color images, a technology that was in its infancy in the early 1900′s. Prokudin-Gorskii left Russia in 1918, after the Russian Revolution had destroyed the Empire he spent years documenting. View of the monastery from Svetlitsa Island, Saint Nil Stolbenskii Monastery, Lake Seliger; 1910 Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection (Library of Congress) Peasant girls, Russian Empire. Rafts on the Peter the Great Canal. Andrei Petrov Kalganov. Garden of the M.P.S.