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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.
[REV 25-NOV-2014]
UPDATE: As noted by our astute commenters, the store shown here is now the home of Bill Green's restaurant, Gullah Grub.
July 4, 1939. "A Fourth of July celebration. St. Helena Island, South Carolina." 35mm color transparency by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Washington, D.C., 1936. "Bus transportation -- Greyhound Lines motor coach to New York." 4x5 inch glass negative, Harris & Ewing Collection. View full size.
Washington, D.C., circa 1911. "Mawhinney, M., Miss." Mary Mawhinney at the harp. Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. View full size.
Washington, D.C., 1924. "Flat spare tires are numerous around Washington these days due to the youthful football players who have found an easier way to inflate the pigskin than using their lungs. 'Billy' Friel shown inflating his football." 4x5 inch glass negative. View full size.
Washington, D.C., 1936. "Bus transportation -- loading baggage on motor coach." 4x5 inch glass negative, Harris & Ewing Collection. View full size.
September 1943. "Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Passengers in the waiting room of the Greyhound bus station." Nitrate negative by Esther Bubley for the Office of War Information. View full size.
Washington, D.C., 1936. "Bus transportation -- Greyhound Lines driver at station with coach bound for New York." 4x5 inch glass negative, Harris & Ewing Collection. View full size.
Washington, D.C., circa 1936. "NO CAPTION" is all it says here. Feel free to improvise in the Comments below! Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. View full size.
All of Washington is looking forward to the arrival of the famous Mack Sennett girls, who are due to reach this city in the near future, and who are to appear every day on the stage at one of the local theaters in conjunction with the much-heralded feature photoproduction "Yankee Doodle in Berlin." -- News item (Washington Post)
Washington, D.C., circa 1919. "Mack Sennett girls." An assortment of the theatrical impresario's "bathing beauties," last seen here. National Photo Co. View full size.
1907. "Maud Wagner, circus performer and tattooist." Maud Stevens Wagner (1877-1961), thought to be America's first female tattoo artist. Plaza Gallery, Los Angeles. View full size.
Feb. 24, 1958. "Erwin Swann, half-length portrait, standing, facing front, hands in pockets." The future Mr. of Mrs. Swann. Gelatin silver print by Jean Raeburn, New York. View full size.
New York, 1959. "Mrs. Erwin D. Swann (Caroline Burke), head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front." New York World-Telegram and Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. View full size.
"Girl archers from Camp Greystone, Tuxedo, N.C., demonstrate fancy shooting attired in latest fashion for the bow and arrow sport -- 'shorts' and sox."
August 23, 1928. "A perfect miss with every shot -- Miss Isabel Bonsack of St. Louis, Mo., has a right to feel happy that her fellow members of the Camp Greystone archery team are skillful markswomen. Miss Bonsack volunteered to act as a target during an exhibition of girl archers at the Grove Park Inn, Asheville, North Carolina." Gelatin silver print. View full size.
May 14, 1913. "Young woman in pitching stance, full-length studio portrait, wearing a baseball uniform." Gelatin silver print, Stadler Photographing Co., New York-Chicago. View full size.
New York, 1953. "Actress Joan McCracken [1917-1961] in costume for the musical Me & Juliet." Color transparency by Phillip Harrington for Look magazine. View full size.