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The World Was In Color
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(
Dan Carino
)
Jan 24, 2009
The World Was In Color
The Library of Congress has posted a bunch of photos of the World War Two home front, many from California, and they're in glorious color. We're posting just one of them (left) but the rest are worth a look.
An A-20 bomber being riveted by a woman worker at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant at Long Beach, Calif. This is just one of the color photos recently archived by the Library of Congress from the World War 2 home front.
An A-20 bomber being riveted by a woman worker at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant at Long Beach, Calif. This is just one of the color photos recently archived by the Library of Congress from the World War 2 home front.
(
Alfred T. Palmer, courtesy Library of Congress
)

The Library of Congress has posted a bunch of photos of the World War Two home front, many from California, and they're in glorious color. We're posting just one of them (left) but the rest are worth a look.

The Library of Congress has posted a bunch of photos of the World War Two home front, many from California, and they're in glorious color. We're posting just one of them (left) but the rest are worth a look.