On Tuesday, April 2, 2019, my wife & I went on a short road trip first to Haverford College (PA)
to view a special photo exhibit in the Atrium Gallery in the Marshall Fine Art Center.
It was an exhibit of approximately 50 color photographs taken between 1939-1943 at the dawn of color photography.

These photos were commissioned by the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and its successor agency, the Office of Ware Information (OWI)
to record American life from the Great Depression through the World War II years. Though many of the photographs taken by a group of photographers
were in black-and-white, Kodachrome film had just been invented and this color film was donated for the project.

The film was expensive and the developing and printing was even more expensive.
These images were never printed but stored by the Library of Congress until discovered in the 1970s.

The images began their coming to life in print and eventually resulted in a 2004 book,
“Bound for Glory” shown here in one of my photos.

Quoting from the exhibit: “These images remain among the most moving and famous documentary images from the first half of the twentieth century…
The evocative power of these all-but-forgotten images is undeniable.”

“The FSA/OWI exhibition at Haverford College consisted of fifty color photographs
printed from high definition digital scans from the Kodachrome originals in the Library of Congress collection Washington, DC.
These files are free and available to the public for download from the Library of Congress website.”

The images of the exhibit were restored and edited in the Digital Photography Lab in Marshall Fine Arts Center.

A quote I have made and use often in regard to taking photographs has been,
"A photograph captures a moment in time…forever!” My sentiments truly take on a full and deeper meaning when viewing the photos in this collection.
These photographs clearly captured fleeting moments of 20th Century American history.