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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.
[REV 25-NOV-2014]
Circa 1897. "U.S. Treasury building, Washington, D.C." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative by William Henry Jackson, Detroit Photographic Co. View full size.
We're reposting this just in case you've had enough of that other wedding between you-know-who and what's-her-name.
1914. "Kittens in costume as bride and groom, being married by third kitten in ecclesiastical garb." Holy catrimony! Photo by Harry W. Frees. View full size.
TURN LIST WAYPOINTS:1. River ↱
2. Woods ↰
3. Grandmother's house ⛒
1904. "Schell Memorial Bridge over the Connecticut River at East Northfield, Mass." Completed in 1903 and now a barricaded, rusty, vine-covered ruin. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
Columbus, Georgia, circa 1955, and some early tweets. Also, No Loitering, and EES ONLY. 4x5 acetate negative from the News Photo Archive. View full size.
Columbus, Georgia, circa 1959. "School Safety Patrol." 4x5 inch acetate negative from the Shorpy News Photo Archive. View full size.
San Francisco, 1919. "Mitchell roadster at Christian Science church, Franklin Street." 5x7 glass negative by Christopher Helin. View full size.
December 1963. "Actress Mary Tyler Moore relaxing at her home in Los Angeles." 35mm negative from photos by Earl Theisen for the Look magazine assignment "America's Favorite TV Wife." View full size.
September 1954. "Photographs show actress and daytime television host Betty White at home in Los Angeles with her dogs." 35mm negative from photos by Maurice Terrell and Earl Theisen for Look magazine. View full size.
September 1940. "Miner who won power-drilling contest at the Labor Day celebration in Silverton, Colorado." Photo by Russell Lee. View full size.
Sept. 23, 1952. Philadelphia. "Rocky Marciano KO's Jersey Joe Walcott, is new World Heavyweight Champion." Photo by Herb Scharfman, International News Photos/Encyclopaedia Britannica. Gelatin silver print. View full size.
April 1954. New York. "Actress Cloris Leachman at home with baby." The future Oscar winner and her son Adam Englund. Color transparency from photos by Phillip Harrington for Look magazine. View full size.
August 1939. "Pilot Jacqueline Cochran and Northrop 'Gamma' racing plane." Medium format negative by Toni Frissell for Vogue. View full size.
"New York Window." Glass transparency by Margaret Watkins, exhibited at the 2nd International Salon of Pictorial Photography in 1925. View full size.
1940. "Abandoned boy holding a stuffed toy animal amid ruins following German aerial bombing of London." Photo by the versatile Toni Frissell. View full size.
November 1946. "Women in evening gowns on waterfront. San Juan, Puerto Rico." Medium format color transparency by Toni Frissell. View full size.