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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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July 1941. "Children outside tent home at the FSA migratory farm labor camp mobile unit. Athena, Oregon." Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
December 1940. "Auburn, California -- Placer County Courthouse." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
"Second International Pageant of Pulchritude and Eighth Annual Bathing Girl Revue -- Galveston, Texas -- May 21-22-23, 1927." Panorama by Joseph M. Maurer. View full size.
May 1941. San Diego. "Family living at Kearney Mesa defense housing project. This man came out to California from Oklahoma 10 years ago. He has been an agricultural worker and had lived in various FSA camps. Now employed as a painter at Consolidated Aircraft." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
March 1940. "Post office and general store in Sandwich, New Hampshire." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
May 1942. Washington, D.C. "Student's car in front of University Club on K Street N.W." Our second glimpse of these collegiate Colonials and their graffiti-garnished jalopy. Medium format acetate negative by John Ferrell for the Office of War Information. View full size.
May 1942. Washington, D.C. "Statue at the Pennsylvania Avenue entrance to the National Archives." Acetate negative by John Ferrell for the Office of War Information. View full size.
March 1942. Washington, D.C. "Interior of a drugstore on 14th Street N.W." Medium format acetate negative by John Ferrell for the Office of War Information. View full size.
May 1942. Washington, D.C. "Student's car in front of University Club on K Street N.W." Medium format negative by John Ferrell for the Office of War Information. View full size.
Spring 1940. "Bank and flour mill elevators in Mount Airy, Maryland." Medium format acetate negative by Edwin Rosskam for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
1938. Washington, D.C. "400-subject two-way postage stamp perforating machine at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing." Acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein. View full size.
December 1941. "New York, New York. Entrance to one of Father Divine's 'Heavens' on the East Side." Medium format acetate negative by Edwin Rosskam. View full size.
Spring 1939. "Drugstore window in Washington, D.C." Medium format acetate negative by David Moffat Myers for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Spring 1939. "Waiting for stoplight in Washington, D.C." Medium format acetate negative by David Moffat Myers for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
June 1939. "Signs at highway intersection. Three Forks, Montana." Medium format acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.