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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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Circa 1907. "Coal wharves at Portsmouth, New Hampshire." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Hartford, Conn., circa 1907. "Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co., Main and Pearl Streets." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Hartford, Connecticut, circa 1907. "Hartford Fire Insurance Co." On what looks to be Take Your Boy to Work Day. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
June 13, 1963. "Nonchalantly slurping his Earth-made ice cream cone, 5-year-old David Rowan appears awed with the eerie surroundings before him. The youngster was visiting the moon-like landscape of the space research laboratories at Republic Aviation in Farmingdale, Long Island, N.Y." United Press International Telephoto. View full size.
Washington, D.C., circa 1923. "Janet Moffett, debutante daughter of Rear Admiral Moffett." 5x7 inch glass negative, Harris & Ewing Collection. View full size.
November 1936. "Burial ground in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania." Medium format negative by Edwin Locke for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.
May 1939. Washington, D.C. "Crossing F Street in front of Garfinckel's department store on 14th Street N.W." Medium format acetate negative. View full size.
November 1938. "Nebraska Power Co. plant and railroad yard at Omaha." Medium format negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
October 1940. "The daughter of Mr. Dave Labbee, French-Canadian potato farmer, outside their house near Wallagrass, Maine." Acetate negative by Jack Delano. View full size.
October 1940. "Dinner hour at the home of Mr. J.H. Dube, French-Canadian potato farmer, after he and the boys had finished a day's work in their potato field in Wallagrass, Maine." Medium format negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
August 1941. "Children of Maryland farmer helping harvest the tomato crop. Dorchester County, Maryland." Photo by John Collier for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
December 16, 1930. Chicago. " The Crusaders have new slogans. Miss Elizabeth Thompson was one of the first members of that national organization, formed to overthrow Prohibition, to put the new tire cover on her car." Underwood & Underwood photo. View full size.
February 1940. "Hired help resting after day's work in Upwey horse farm. South Woodstock, Vermont." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.
Circa 1905. "Scarborough Bay, Trinidad & Tobago." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
New York, 1922. "New and especially posed photo of Mrs. Charles H. Sabin, wife of the president of the Guaranty Trust Company of New York, and her two sons, P. Morton Smith and James H. Smith." Mrs. Sabin, the former Pauline Joy Morton, was along with her husband a leader in the movement to repeal Prohibition. Underwood & Underwood photo. View full size.