USA of the 1940's in HQ Colour-Restored Photos Pt.1 [22 Pics]
Jul 28 2012
It's amazing to see how things were back then, and it's even better when the images are restored to a point where they look like they were taken today. This will be a two-part series of posts, so stay tuned for part 2!
All photos are restored and published by Shorpy.
Main Street, Pie Town, New Mexico (1940). Photo by Russell Lee.
At the Pie Town Fair in New Mexico (1940). Photo by Russell Lee.
Serving the barbecue dinner at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair. Pie Town is a community settled by about 200 migrant Texas and Oklahoma farmers who filed homestead claims. Photo by Russell Lee.
General Merchandise store, Main Street, Pie Town, New Mexico (1940). Photo by Russell Lee.
Jack Whinery, Pie Town, New Mexico, homesteader, with his wife and the youngest of his five children in their dirt-floor dugout home (1940). Photo by Russell Lee.
On the Main Street of Cascade, Idaho (1941). Photo by Russell Lee.
Delta County, Colorado. Hay stack and automobiles of peach pickers (1940). Photo by Russell Lee.
Santa Fe R.R. yard at night, Kansas City, Kansas (1943). Photo by Jack Delano.
Santa Fe streamliner Super Chief being serviced at the depot in Albuquerque. Servicing these Diesel streamliners takes five minutes (1943). Photo by Jack Delano.
40th Street Shop, Chicago & Northwestern R.R. (1942) Photo by Jack Delano.
Women employed as roundhouse wipers having lunch, Chicago & North Western Railroad, Clinton, Iowa (1943). Photo by Jack Delano.
Chicago & North Western rail-yard, Chicago (1942). Photo by Jack Delano.
A winter afternoon in the North Proviso yardmaster's office, Chicago & North Western Railroad (1942). Photo by Jack Delano.
Viola Sievers, one of the wipers at the Chicago & North Western roundhouse, giving a giant "H" class locomotive a bath of live steam at Clinton, Iowa (1943). Photo by Jack Delano.
Freight depot of the Army consolidating station at Chicago (1943). Photo by Jack Delano.
Burning autumn leaves along Broadway in Norwich, Connecticut (1940). Photo by Jack Delano.
B-25 bomber assembly hall, North American Aviation, Kansas City (1942). Photo by Alfred Palmer.
Engine inspector for North American Aviation at Long Beach, California (1942). Photo by Alfred Palmer.
Riveter at Douglas Aircraft Corporation plant in Long Beach, California (1942). Photo by Alfred Palmer.
B-25 bomber final assembly line at North American Aviation works, Inglewood, California (1942). Photo by Alfred Palmer.
A painter cleans the tail section of a P-51 Mustang fighter prior to spraying with olive-drab camouflage. North American Aviation plant, Inglewood, California (1942). Photo by Alfred Palmer.
Final assembly for a B-25 bomber at North American Aviation, Inglewood, California (1942). Photo by Alfred Palmer.
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