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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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August 1941. "Highway near Havre, Montana." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
September 1940. "One-room schoolhouse showing overcrowded conditions and need for repairs and equipment. Breathitt County, Kentucky." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
September 1940. "Post office in Botto, Kentucky." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
October 1940. "University of North Carolina boys in their car at the Chapel Hill post office." Acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
August 1941. "Freight train going west from Minot, North Dakota, across the plains." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
October 8, 1957. "Filene's department store, North Shore Shopping Center, Peabody, Massachusetts. Women's and misses' department. Raymond Loewy Associates, client." 4x5 inch acetate negative by Gottscho-Schleisner. View full size.
August 1941. "Hotel on main street of town. Lone Tree, North Dakota." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
August 1941. "Store on main street of town. Lone Tree, North Dakota." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
August 1941. "Railroad station in Froid, Montana." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
August 1941. "Window of post office and store in Homestead, Montana." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
August 1941. "Road with Homestead, Montana, and grain elevators on the horizon." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
December 1943. Washington, D.C. "Servicemen using laundry facilities in the basement of the United Nations service center. It is not necessary to engage a hotel room in order to use these accommodations." Photo by Esther Bubley for the Office of War Information. View full size.
December 1935. "Alabama miners' houses near Birmingham." 8x10 inch nitrate negative by Walker Evans for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.
June 1935. "Highway corner. Reedsville, West Virginia." 8x10 inch nitrate negative by Walker Evans for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.
Montgomery County, Maryland, circa 1940. "Bowman Bros. grist mill, Gaithersburg." 8x10 inch acetate negative by Theodor Horydczak. View full size.