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In the discussion thread: color photos from 1930's and 40's [View all]

Thu Sep 20, 2012, 03:45 AM

5. Cool! Who knew the Library of Congress had a Flickr account...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/sets/72157603671370361/

Apparently, these were done on Kodachrome, which was very expensive back then, so the number of chromes was limited.

But, while Kodachrome made color photography available to the (well-off) masses, guess when and where this one was taken:

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8 replies	Author	Time	Post
color photos from 1930's and 40's [View all]	gabeana	Sep 2012	OP
Interesting, very good quality. Confused me though:	Populist_Prole	Sep 2012	#1
Quite a bit of the A part of the world was in color. The B part was black and white. n/t	dimbear	Sep 2012	#3
Same here, somehow it seems as if the pre-me past occurred in black and white. nt	raccoon	Sep 2012	#6
Those are great!	graywarrior	Sep 2012	#2
Fascinating	tjwmason	Sep 2012	#4
The reason was because it was quite expensive	Major Nikon	Sep 2012	#8
Cool! Who knew the Library of Congress had a Flickr account...	TreasonousBastard	Sep 2012	#5
I've seen some of those images before at this site	Bombero1956	Sep 2012	#7

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