America in Color from 1939-1943

The image above was taken by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information during 1939-1943. The Blog Plog (Photographs from the Denver Post) tells us that these are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small town populations.

The photographs are the property of the Library of Congress and were included in a 2006 exhibit Bound for Glory: America in Color.

These images are so clear and crisp they look as if they were recently taken. If you would like to see what America looked like during the Depression, click here: America in Color.

Nursery Rhyme Art

I have been collecting children's book since high school. Mainly, because I love the illustrations of fairy tales and nursery rhymes.

Recently while reading a nursery rhyme book to Katelyn, I fell in love with the illustrations of Frederick Richardson.

Frederick Richardson was born in Chicago in 1862 and passed on in 1937. Educated in St. Louis at the St. Louis Art Institute he was a published author and an illustrator of many children's books.

Some of the published credits of Richardson include Mother Goose: A Classic Collection of Children's Nursery Rhymes, Reading-Literature the Primer, My Animal Story Book: A Treasury of Sunshine Stories for Children, READING-LITERATURE First Reader and Third Reader.