Comfortable Disappearance

It’s a rare occasion that I take the time to spend an hour perusing through someone else’s brilliant photos. When I ran across this set of photos from the Library of Congress, I took the time. The LOC has started a project of putting photos on Flickr and asking members of the popular photo-sharing website to provide information on the photos. It has turned out to be a successful project generating a significant amount of comments and information on some wonderful photos. It should be noted as well that in these decades color film cost about $5 per role in 1940s dollars.

Here are a few samples, but be sure to check out as much of the set as you can: