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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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December 1954. "Actress Shirley Jones on the set of the film version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma!" 35mm Kodachrome from photos for the Look magazine assignment "The Girl from Oklahoma!" View full size.
Springfield, Mass., circa 1905. "Sumner Avenue looking east." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
St. Augustine, Florida, circa 1897. "Fountain at Ponce de Leon Hotel." A phantasmagoria of Edison bulbs and expectorating amphibians. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative by William Henry Jackson. View full size.
Said to have been the last full-rigged ship built in Massachusetts, the Mary L. Cushing was launched in Newburyport in 1883 by George E. Currier. Registered to Pendleton, Carver & Nichols of Searsport in 1895, and eventually sold into the salmon trade; disappeared from the register in 1907.
— Penobscot Marine Museum
Off Sandy Hook Light circa 1899. "Sailing ship Mary L. Cushing." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
Los Angeles, 1962. "Actress Natalie Wood performing as striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee in the motion picture Gypsy." 35mm Kodachrome by Robert Vose for the Look magazine assignment "Big Season for Musicals." View full size.
February 1963. Miami, Florida. "Prizefighter (and Olympic gold medalist) Cassius Clay in his Cadillac, which is equipped with a phonograph player." View full size.
November 1939. "West Texan at eating house at auction. Stockyards, San Angelo, Texas." Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Admin. View full size.
November 1939. "Old mansion in Comanche, Texas." Our second look at the pigeon roost otherwise known as Oakland Heights, last seen here. Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
November 1939. "Slicing bread at bakery. San Angelo, Texas." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
February 1943. "Girls on wheels expedite aircraft production. Literally helping to speed the war effort, Dolores Richardson and Geneva Carpenter are 'expeditors' at Douglas Aircraft in El Segundo, California, where they deliver inter-departmental messages on roller skates." Medium format acetate negative by Ann Rosener for the Office of War Information. View full size.
August 1939. "Independent refinery. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma." Last seen here. Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
November 1939. "Old mansion in Comanche, Texas." Boo, y'all! Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
February 1943. "Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, this woman is working on a 'Vengeance' dive bomber." 4x5 inch Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer for the Office of War Information. View full size.
May 30, 1940. "Bertram F. Willcox residence in Pound Ridge, Westchester County, New York. Detail of outside stairs to upper deck. Moore & Hutchins, architect." Large-format acetate negative by Gottscho-Schleisner. View full size.
December 1942. "Working on the cylinder of a locomotive at the Chicago & North Western R.R. 40th Street shops, Chicago, Illinois." Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.