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

Response to gabeana (Original post)

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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