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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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1908. "University Circle, Cleveland, Ohio -- Case Western Reserve University." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, circa 1901. "Pocono Mountain House and Springs," a popular summer resort at the turn of the century. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
April 1941. "Houses and grocery store on Federal Street in the Negro section of Chicago." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee. View full size.
San Francisco, 1939. "International truck and Reliance trailer on Dolores Street." At left, the tower of Mission High School. 8x10 inch nitrate negative, late of the Marilyn Blaisdell and Wyland Stanley collections. View full size.
April 1941. "Booth in Negro tavern on southside of Chicago." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Circa 1941. "Wrecking yard at Irwin, Pennsylvania." Spitz Auto Parts, east of Pittsburgh. Farm Security Administration photo. View full size.
September 1940. "Distributing newspapers off the morning train to newsboys at the railroad station. Montrose, Colorado." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
August 1940. Box Elder County, Utah. "Farm Security Administration cooperative tractor." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the FSA. View full size.
September 1940. "Grocery store and filling station at Cimarron, Colorado. This is a sheep shipping center." Medium format negative by Russell Lee. View full size.
Actually, Lower Echo Lake, a body of water about seven miles south of Lake Tahoe as the crow flies. We didn't actually make use of the lake on our 1966 vacation, just popped in for a look (and for me to take this Kodachrome slide) as we headed home down US 50 after a visit to Virginia City. View full size.
April 1942. Chicago. "Negro businessmen and women. On his way to play at an afternoon show, bandleader 'Red' Saunders stops to say goodbye to his wife." Photo by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.
New Jersey circa 1900. "View near Basking Ridge." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Savannah, Georgia, circa 1907. "Broughton Street from Bull." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
The Bank of Bisbee had a starring role in "Violent Saturday," a 1955 film noir shot on location with Bisbee recast as "Bradenville," and Ernest Borgnine somewhat improbably playing an Amish farmer whose family is held hostage by bank robbers.
May 1940. "Bank in copper mining center of Bisbee, Arizona." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
New York circa 1901. "Fifth Avenue Hotel, southwest corner of Madison Square." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative by William Henry Jackson. View full size.