Suburban families, big cars with fins, shopping malls and drive-ins: Ain’t that America? Several collections at WPA document the mid-Twentieth Century United States in all its kitschy glory.

The Color Stock Collection: Shot on luminous Kodachrome film from the mid-1940s to 1970s, this footage features American pastimes, family life, suburbia, parades, amusements, and industry.

Home movies: With family celebrations, holidays, domestic life, and vacation travels from the 1920s to 1960s, these are precious slices of real life.

Travelogues: The American West, National Parks, and Hawaii are some featured destinations.

Educational, training, and industrial films: Whether deadly serious, humorous or quirky, these films have something important to say. Workplace safety, manners, health and hygiene, driving, drug use, effective salesmanship, and even hairdressing techniques can be learned through these classics of the 1950s-70s.

Vintage television commercials: Just try to get the jingles out of your head!

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