Amazing Color Photos of Life in the United States in the 1940s

These are what the life in America looked like in the 1940s

Crowd eating free barbeque dinner at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair, 1940.

Fruit wagon at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair. There is no fruit grown in this section and the people depend on outside truckers to bring it in 1940.

Church, Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940.

Wife of Jim Norris with canned goods, Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940.

Pinto bean warehouse, Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940.

Rodeo at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair, 1940.

Group of homesteaders in front of the bean house which was used for exhibit hall at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair, 1940.

Gathering corn in the field, Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940.

Cutting the pies and cakes at the barbeque dinner, Pie Town, New Mexico Fair, 1940.

Serving pinto beans at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair barbeque, 1940.

People at the Fair, Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940.

Saying grace before the barbeque dinner at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair, 1940.

Homesteader and his children eating barbeque at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair, 1940.

School children singing, Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940.

Friends meeting at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair, 1940.

Driving calves into the corral for roping at the rodeo of the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair, 1940.

Sugar cane workers resting at the noon hour, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, 1941.

Sugar cane workers resting, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, 1941.

Children in a company housing settlement, Puerto Rico, 1941.

Sorting and packing tomatoes at the Yauco Cooperative Tomato Growers Association, Puerto Rico, 1942.

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