The NY Times recently plugged a new book that celebrates government sponsored color photography from the Depression through WWII.
It turns out the Library of Congress also features some of this work (only 1600 color photos were made) with small samples as well as archival quality tiffs (these are in the 200 megabyte range).
The specific government organizations were the Farm Security Administration and the Office of War Information and great photographers that even I've heard about took part (Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange for example).
It is always worth time lurking at the LoC site.
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