Jazz For Cows
The New Hot 5, American-based jazz band plays for a herd of cows in Autrans, France.
M-4 tank crews of the United States. Fort Knox, Kentucky, June 1942. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Alfred T. Palmer. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.
Photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, caught some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression and World War II (1939-1943) on America’s rural and small town populations.
The series of photos vividly depicts REAL Americans: from farms in Connecticut and Maine, city life in Massachusetts, and Chicago train yard workers; to New Mexico homesteaders, rural school children in Texas, and Gravelly Range in Montana. This is not your standard smiles and waves from birthday parties and fairs — this is the rugged look of real Americana.
The photographs are the property of the Library of Congress and were included in a 2006 exhibit “Bound for Glory: America in Color”.
Fantastic look at American history.
