career, and a look at the american indian museum photography collection. in 1939, newly-released color film to photographers working for the u.s. government. american history tv visited the library of congress to meet curator beverley brennan and not about the collection of images documenting the great depression and world war ii. in 19 thirties, the united states experienced an economic depression and an agricultural disaster. it was a great drought. people were not able to make a living on their farms, they began moving other places looking for a new lands to live on. people who are in dire straits, one of the worst-hit areas in the economy was agriculture. the program began under top well, who was one of the advisers to president franklin roosevelt to document the conditions under which people were living. this was back when we did not have television. we had radio but a lot of places did not have electricity, so they could not listen to the radio broadcasts to find out
social media. follow us at c-span history. in 1939, eastman kodak company gave newly released kodachrome color film to photographers working for the u.s. government. american history tv visited the library of congress to meet beverly brannan to learn about the collection of color images documenting agricultural life and war production during the great depression and world war ii. beverly: in the 1930 s, the united states experienced an economic depression and an agricultural disaster. the great drought. people were not able to make a living on their farms. they begin moving other places, looking for a new lands to live on. people were in dire straits. one of the worst hit areas in the economy was agriculture. a program began under tugwell who was one of the advisers to president franklin roosevelt to document the conditions under which people reliving. were living. this is back when we did not have television. we had radio, but a lot of places did not have electricity. so
living on their farms. they begin moving other places looking for new land to live on. people were in dire straits. wasof the worst hit areas agriculture. a program began under one of the advisors to president franklin theevelt to document conditions under which people .ere living this is when we didn t have television. of folksdio but a lot did not have electricity. they sent out photographers to take pictures of what was happening and they put these pictures into newspapers whenever they could and into magazines and trade journals and things like that. it was difficult to get newspapers to accept these photographs because nobody wanted to face up to what was happening, but lori stryker who was an economist from columbia university was really persistent. he was the head of this project and went to newspaper offices, contacted newspaper people, magazine people and pushed and pushed against these pictures to get them published and out to the public so they could see what was h
chrome film. the library of congress curator tells a story about this collection and the photographers. but we are in the center vault of the prints and photographs division of the library of congress. the library has a collection of color photographs from the 1930 s and 40 s. it started as an experiment with color film. kodak was just putting its color film on the market and sent it out to photographers and institutions to give it a try to see if they could create a market for it. the pictures were free so they were appealing to the newspapers magazines and publishing agencies, book brochures on that kind of thing. i was fill your with the black and white photographs. about 171,000. black and white photograph. i have been working with those for a few years. there was not much emphasis placed because they were hard to handle. they were unique items. there s only one of each at the time in the 1970 s. it was difficult to make a copy. very expensive to make a photograph. you do
production efforts. in 1939, the photographers began using kodachrome color film. in this second of a two part american artifacts, beverly brannan tells the stories about the collection and photographers. beverly: we are in the center vault of the prints and photographs division of the library of congress. the library has a collection of color photographs from the 1930 s and 1940 s. they started as an experiment with color film. kodak was just putting its color film in the market. sent it out to photographers at institutions to give it a try, to see if they could create a market for it. the pictures were free. so they were appealing to newspapers, magazines, publishing agencies, book publishers. i was familiar already with the black and white photographs. there are about 171,000 farm security administration and office of war information black-and-white photographs. and i had been working with those for a few years. there was not much emphasis placed on the color transparencie