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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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September 1942. "Batavia, New York (vicinity). Tomato harvest on Nesbitt's farm. West Virginia crew of pickers en route to the muck fields." Medium format negative by John Collier for the Office of War Information. View full size.
July 1943. "Greenville, South Carolina. Men of the medical unit of the 25th Service Group simulating the treatment of a gas casualty." Medium format nitrate negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.
June 1943. Oswego, New York. "Children, recruited for farm work, waiting outside the U.S. Employment Service to start work for the summer." Photo by Marjory Collins for the Office of War Information. View full size.
August 1939. "Service station operator in Seminole, Oklahoma." 35mm nitrate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Two pumps, no waiting.
September 1943. "Gas station on the bus route between Columbus and Cincinnati." Photo by Esther Bubley for the Office of War Information. View full size.
September 1943. "A Greyhound bus that has been stopped at a filling station to get water between Washington, D.C., and Pittsburgh." Medium format nitrate negative by Esther Bubley for the Office of War Information. View full size.
September 1938. "Cooperative gas station at Greenbelt, Maryland." Photo by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
June 1939. Greene County, Georgia. "Men hanging around crossroads store." 35mm negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the FSA. View full size.
June 1939. "Greensboro, Greene County, Georgia. Playing checkers outside a service station on a Saturday afternoon." 35mm nitrate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
July 1939. "Young North Carolinian in old Ford. He does not farm. 'Works for wages.' At Tuck's filling station. Person County, N.C." Medium format negative by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
August 1968. Los Angeles. "Actor Jimmy Durante in his kitchen with corn flakes and dirty dishes on counter." 35mm negative from photos by Bob Lerner for the Look magazine assignment "Pinocchio Lives!" View full size.
Florida circa 1897. "The landing at Palm Beach." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative by William Henry Jackson, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
November 1939. "At large dairy in Tom Green County, Texas, feed is delivered to a barn, immediately chopped up and blown into a truck for transportation to feeding lot." Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
August 1968. Los Angeles. "Actor Jimmy Durante in swimsuit relaxing at home." 35mm negative from photos by Bob Lerner for the Look magazine assignment "Pinocchio Lives!" View full size.
August 6, 1945. "Troops of the 20th Armored Division and units of the 9th Army whoop it up between raindrops as the S.S. John Ericsson nears Pier 84, Hudson River." Photo by Al Ravenna, New York World Telegram & Sun. View full size.