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Tuesday, 16 August 2011
quote [ In 1942, soon after the United States entered World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an executive order creating the Office of War Information (OWI). The new agency was tasked with releasing war news, promoting patriotic activities, and providing news outlets with audio, film, and photos of the government's war efforts. ]
Some really candid and intimate shots from an important time in our world's history.
[art] [by feldenglas@1:18pmGMT] [+8 Good] |
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scojam
said @ 2:57pm GMT on 16th Aug
Interesting pictures. Say maybe that's what's needed to get Americans working again another war. |
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val
said @ 4:38pm GMT on 16th Aug
The military-industrial complex is doing pretty well with the ones we've got. |
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zkhan
said @ 4:48pm GMT on 16th Aug
[Score:1 Informative]
This is a subset of http://sensibleerection.com/entry.php/84571. I tried to make it as searchable as possible. |
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sanepride
said @ 10:50pm GMT on 16th Aug
But who can be bothered to remember to check every week for the next 15 weeks every time it's updated? Nice to have a reminder every so often. |
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drd69
said @ 12:33am GMT on 17th Aug
I bookmarked it and check it every week. |
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sanepride
said @ 4:00am GMT on 17th Aug
You're a lot more attentive and industrious than me. |
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Bodnoirbabe
said @ 4:54pm GMT on 16th Aug
[Score:1 Underrated]
Number 23 - Hubba hubba! |
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arrowhen
said @ 7:13am GMT on 17th Aug
Yup, that's one sexy drill press alright! |
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b
said @ 6:50pm GMT on 17th Aug
#4, babe alert on the left. |
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Omagus23
said @ 6:30pm GMT on 16th Aug
[Score:2]
I'm guessing the captions came with the photos? Every time a woman is show doing anything remotely important looking the caption mentions how "carefully trained" she is. Y'know, by a man. The only black guy gets no commentary, only location and date. Simply products of the time, but it is interesting when you notice the little things that show progress happened. |
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arrowhen
said @ 3:54pm GMT on 17th Aug
I only saw "carefully trained" in one caption. |
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b
said @ 6:49pm GMT on 17th Aug
To be fair, the black guy is referred to as "colored mechanic". |
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arrowhen
said @ 6:54am GMT on 18th Aug
They had to explain stuff like that back then because color photography was still new! |
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Chrix
said @ 9:44pm GMT on 16th Aug
There's something about seeing photos from the past in colour that makes those times and eras so much more real to me, for some reason. I think that when I see something in black & white, it's easy to detach it from reality and history in my mind. My grandfather's war stories are always set in B&W in my imagination, set to a jaunty 40s swing soundtrack... But people & circumstances tend to become more real in colour... |
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sanepride
said @ 10:56pm GMT on 16th Aug
[Score:1 Interesting]
The commentary at the top does note that most of the home front pictures were posed, produced as propaganda by the Office of War Information. What's striking is how closely the photos of the attractive people in the photos resemble their counterparts in Soviet propaganda images of the time. |
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f00m@nB@r
said @ 3:16am GMT on 17th Aug
this is only one of 20 parts |
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f00m@nB@r
said @ 3:19am GMT on 17th Aug
love the super dramatic lighting. |
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gunthar
said @ 7:52am GMT on 17th Aug
I feel like I'm some sort of ironic racist when I come into this post expecting to see non-european minorities thanks to the title goddamnit |
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