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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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November 1946. "Women in evening gowns on waterfront. San Juan, Puerto Rico." Medium format color transparency by Toni Frissell. View full size.
August 1942. "Aroostook County, Maine. Airing wool before spinning." Medium format negative by John Collier for the Office of War Information. View full size.
October 1941. "Radford, Virginia (vicinity). Elsie Marie and Howard Jr., children of Mr. Howard H. Smith, with their mother on the porch of their new rural home, which was built for them by the Farm Security Administration on J.T Holley's property." Photo by Marion Post Wolcott for the FSA. View full size.
January 1943. "The operator of a zinc ore loader at a large smelting plant is protected against harmful dust by a mask. From the Eagle-Picher plant near Cardin, Oklahoma, come great quantities of zinc and lead to serve many important purposes in the war effort." 4x5 inch nitrate negative by Fritz Henle for the Office of War Information. View full size.
New Haven, Conn., circa 1908. "Delta Psi fraternity house, Yale University." Note the Fire Alarm Telegraph Station at right. 8x10 glass negative. View full size.
Circa 1905. "Broadway & Fifth Avenue, looking east, Knoxville, Tennessee." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Mobile, Alabama, circa 1910. "Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Conti Street." 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. View full size.
Circa 1913. "Alexander Bridge Road, Chickamauga, Georgia." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Memphis circa 1910. "Lion house (Carnivora Building), Overton Park Zoo." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Mobile, Alabama, circa 1910. "Bienville Hotel, Bienville Square." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
The Detroit River circa 1910. "Detroit waterfront." When Ferry met Sooty. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Circa 1902. "Alma Sanitarium, Alma, Michigan." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative by Lycurgus Solon Glover, Detroit Photographic Co. View full size.
Detroit circa 1910. "Griswold Street looking toward Ford Building." Our title comes from the tailor shop at left. 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size.
Circa 1904. "Long Beach Hotel, Long Beach, Long Island, N.Y." On July 29, 1907, this "Riviera of the East" burned to the ground after an electrical fire broke out in an upstairs storeroom. 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size.
Circa 1906. "Bathing at York Beach, Maine." Where seaside resorts include the Fairmount and the Wahnita. 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size.