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Our holdings include hundreds of glass and film negatives/transparencies that we've scanned ourselves; in addition, many other photos on this site were extracted from reference images (high-resolution tiffs) in the Library of Congress research archive. (To query the database click here.) They are adjusted, restored and reworked by your webmaster in accordance with his aesthetic sensibilities before being downsized and turned into the jpegs you see here. All of these images (including "derivative works") are protected by copyright laws of the United States and other jurisdictions and may not be sold, reproduced or otherwise used for commercial purposes without permission.
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June 1937. "Firetower. Allegan reforestation project of the U.S. Resettlement Administration in southwest Michigan." Medium format nitrate negative by Russell Lee. View full size.

July 1937. "Water wagon. New Glarus, Wisconsin." (Rear view here.) Medium format nitrate negative by Russell Lee for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.

July 1937. "Horse watering trough. New Glarus, Wisconsin." Medium format nitrate negative by Russell Lee for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.

July 1937. "Water wagon. New Glarus, Wisconsin." (Front view here.) Medium format nitrate negative by Russell Lee for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.

December 1910. Rossville, Georgia. "Two of the young boys working in Richmond Hosiery Mills." Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine for the National Child Labor Committee. View full size.

March 1936. "Consumers Utah 'Blue Blaze' company store in coal town. Near Price, Utah." 4x5 inch nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.

July 1938. "The main street of Dover, Delaware." Where the drugs are Wise and the bicoastal tea is Great. Nitrate negative by John Vachon, Farm Security Administration. View full size.

St. James, New York, 1950. "St. James Episcopal Church bazaar." Our second look at these pastel parishioners. Medium format color transparency by Toni Frissell. View full size.

Los Angeles circa 1956. The "secret of ground beef that STAYS JUICY, NEVER CRUMBLES"? Why, it's Carnation Evaporated Milk, returning whence it came. No. 8 in a series of billboard photos from the files of Pacific Outdoor Advertising. View full size.

August 1935. Huntsville, Arkansas. "Farmer who supplements his income by selling ice." 35mm nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

St. James, New York, circa 1950. "St. James Church bazaar." Episcopal portal into the Marvel Universe! Medium format color transparency by Toni Frissell. View full size.

Burlington, Vermont, circa 1911. "City Hall Park." Hotel Vermont in the background; bench-warmers in the foreground. 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Cleveland, Ohio, circa 1910. "The Federal Building, Public Square," a.k.a. the United States Post Office Custom House and Court House. Known today as the Howard M. Metzenbaum U.S. Courthouse. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Saratoga Springs, New York, circa 1908. "Delaware & Hudson Railroad station." 8x10 inch glass dry plate negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

July 16, 1926. Washington, D.C. "Lincoln Memorial and boys in Reflecting Pool with toy sailboat." 4x5 inch glass negative, National Photo Company Collection. View full size.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, circa 1911. "Green's Hotel, Eighth and Chestnut Streets." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.