Connecticut town on the sea, probably Stonington
Almost as long as I’ve been blogging, I’ve been sharing public-domain images, many of them from the period of America’s Great Depression. Early on, I came across color images that had been created by photographers of the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and, later, the Office of War Information (OWI) between 1939 and 1943 and shared some of them in my blog. The Stonington image, above, was posted on December 28, 2005, in North Farnham Freeholder, an early blog that was abandoned in favor of other, later, blog endeavors.
Approximately 1,600 color photos that had been created by the FSA and OWI were misfiled when they were transferred to the Library of Congress in 1944 and largely forgotten until they resurfaced in the mid-1970s. Taken shortly after the 1935 invention of Kodachrome film, the rich, saturated images are some of the only color photos taken during the Great Depression and early war years.
The FSA photographer who shot the image above, Jack Delano, also produced other color images as well as black and white images during his November 1940 visit to Stonington. Those included below are available in high-resolution format from the Library of Congress. The titles used are those from the Library of Congress. Image links are to the corresponding image on Flickr.
A square with old houses in an old fishing village, Stonington, Conn.
The same location for this photo can be viewed on Google StreetView with images captured in 2012. The buildings from 1940 still exist.
Connecticut town, probably Stonington, on the sea.
A view of the old sea town, Stonington, Conn.
A bank for sale in Stonington, Connecticut
A square with old houses in the old fishing village of Stonington, Connecticut
Connecticut town, probably Stonington, on the sea
