Via a heads-up from [member=Capt.Sensible], Yale has thrown 170K photos covering the depression era through to WW2 online: http://photogrammar.yale.edu/ lots of 'New' stuff, in among some old familiars (Colour Ft. Knox Series etc., though even that looks like it might be worth a second look as the set appears complete). "Manpower. Americans all. Each night, George Voss gives thanks that he is in America. Each day he gives his undivided and complete attention to the work at hand--the processing of parts for America's medium tanks. Employed by a large Midwest tank factory, German-born George Voss is one of many naturalized Americans who are providing the weapons to wipe the Nazis off the earth. Pressed Steel Can Company, Chicago, Illinois" "Lititz, Pennsylvania. Boy Scouts listening to lecture on German bombs during their training as messengers" Etc.
Location, photographer, date range tools/links are excellent. This is one of the best laid out Image archives I've seen. Look! Real colour, rather than that photoshopped nonsense: "United Nations exhibit put on by OWI in Rockefeller Plaza, New York, N.Y. Central motif was this frame containing copy of Atlantic charter, with amplifiers at each end broadcasting speeches by Roosevelt, Churchill and Chiang Kai-Shek every half hour, and surrounded by statues of the four freedoms" 1943
Veritably, real colour, not the iPhoto stuff. Thank you for pointing this out. The trouble with going back to using a pre-war camera taking 8 negatives measuring 6 by 9 cm is that you have to think, and keep very steady, but therein lies the pleasure ( and keep a record of the pictures taken because there is no interlocking between shutter and film spool.) But the good thing is that after I develop the film I hope to have a negative large enough to take a contact print from. The film speed is much faster than the first roll film the camera was fed with before the war. Progress at last. Still, the plastic bodied Canon I took the attachments with is an amazing thing.
Caption (Original Description) Production. B-17F heavy bomber. Raw material for the building of B-17F (Flying Fortress) bombers is stored in a warehouse at the Boeing plant in Seattle. The Flying Fortress, a four-engine heavy bomber capable of flying at high altitudes, has performed with great credit in the South Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere /#record-title Photographer Andreas Feininger /#record-photographer Created December 1942 /#record-created Location Seattle, King, Washington /#record-notes Lot Number (Shooting Assignment) 745 /#record-notes Call Number (Library of Congress) LC-USE6-D-008336
Labs a sign they're taking the collection seriously, and also, eventually, promising toys. http://photogrammar.yale.edu/labs/
