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These are worth a look.

Library of congress.
Very nice, large format color shots made from original color slides. 
Seeing this period in clear color is a bit strange and beautiful.

*give this a minute to load, it's 60 or so large pics. Press F11 for a full screen.
                               
                                                                   Enjoy
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http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2010/07/26/captured-america-in-color-from-1939-1943/

Thanks for posting these DJ,  I enjoyed browsing them.

Those are fine pictures. I see it was not only the hamfests (discussed elsewhere) that gentlemen wore coats and ties to, but the county fair as well. Those pictures have much to say.

Slide 2 sure looked familiar - sure enough, was taken right here in town at Stonington Point...things still look pretty much the same....went down there this morning and did a present day reshoot from the same spot as best I could The two houses in the foreground are still there, the closest one has had a dormer added to the roofline, and the next one is now gray.  Stonington, in 1940, was a town of working fisherman, mainly immigrants from Portugal.  Today, most of the homes above the Point have been sold off to out-of towners as summer places and second homes.  It's a beautiful village with shops, restaurants, and boatyards, and is still home to the last working commercial fishing fleet in Connecticut.  Uncle Al, W1UX, keeps his sailboat here.  My home QTH would be somewhere in the ridge of trees on the horizon to the right (east) of the big house that stands out on the shore in the right of the picture.

Update 08/08/10 - I found another picture of this view taken in the end of December, which actually is a closer match to the 1940 shot without leaves on the trees....

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