Instant Alert: Vivid color photos from the Great Depression show life in one of America's darkest times

MANAGE SUBSCRIPTIONS   |   UNSUBSCRIBE   |   VIEW ONLINE   Vivid color photos from the Great Depression show life in one of America's darkest times by Christopher Woody on Oct 27, 2016, 6:59 PM Advertisement The US entered the Great Depression — one of history's great financial calamities — in the late 1920s, and the country spent most of the 1930s mired in a debilitating economic malaise. It ultimately took the outbreak of World War II to help the US wrench itself out of the protracted slump. Photos of America during the Depression, much like the mood of the country, are often bleak, available only in black and white. But the photos below, produced using color transparencies taken by various photographers between 1939 and 1941 and compiled by the Library of Congress, show the period and the people who endured it in vivid color — offering a new way to look at one of America's most studied historical eras. SEE ALSO: Amazing colorized photos show a unique side of World War II Trucks outside of a starch factory, in Caribou, Aroostook County, Maine, in late 1940. There were almost 50 trucks in the line. Some had been waiting for 24 hours for the potatoes to be graded and weighed. Boys fishing in a bayou, in Schriever, Louisiana, in summer 1940. Cajun children in a bayou near a school in Terrebonne, a US Farm Security Administration project. Hauling crates of peaches from the orchard to the shipping shed, Delta County, Colorado, in late 1940. See the rest of the story at Business Insider   Share the latest business news with your network:    Email sent to:   |   Manage your email preferences   |   Unsubscribe Terms of Service   |   Privacy Policy Business Insider. 150 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011