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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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January 1941. "Guest of Sarasota, Florida, trailer park at the beach with her family." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.
January 1941. "Amish farmers from Pennsylvania near Sarasota, where they are observing Florida farming methods." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Washington, D.C., circa 1940. "Bureau of Engraving and Printing Annex, C Street S.W." 4x5 inch acetate negative. View full size.
November 1935. "View of alley between K and L streets in Northwest Washington behind North Capitol Street. Blake School in background." Medium format negative by Carl Mydans for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.
May 1941. Washington, D.C. "Rent a bicycle -- Sunday recreation at the Tidal Basin." Medium format negative by Martha McMillan Roberts. View full size.
A slide from a collection I purchased at the swap meet a few years back. They had belonged to an Air Force sergeant and his wife and dated from the 1950s to the 1970s; this one was marked May 1960. View full size.
July 1941. "Work on streetcar tracks, Fourteenth and G Streets N.W., Washington, D.C." Medium format negative by Martha McMillan Roberts. View full size.
July 1939. "Rooftop parking, Washington, D.C." Pedestrians look left, right, and up. Medium format negative by David Moffat Myers. View full size.
May 1950. "University of Notre Dame football quarterback Bob Williams posed as if signing autographs for a group of college women." 3x4 inch Kodachrome transparency by Frank Bauman for the Look magazine assignment "Grantland Rice's Football Forecast for 1950." View full size.
San Francisco circa 1920. "Haynes 'Fourdore' four-passenger roadster." The buggy with the baby bump in back. Glass negative by Christopher Helin. View full size.
Buffalo, New York, circa 1900. "Buffalo River and elevators, foot of Main Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
July 1942. "Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. Charles Ruggiero, clerk in a grocery store in New York's Italian section, wishes the handful of spaghetti he is breaking were Mussolini's neck. The ceiling price sign above his head, written in Italian, is helping to defeat Il Duce by controlling inflation, one of America's most dangerous enemies." Medium format negative by Howard Liberman for the Office of War Information. View full size.
June 1942. "Community pool in Greenbelt, Maryland." Medium format negative by Marjory Collins for the Office of War Information. View full size.
July 1939. "Washington, D.C. — Government worker's room." Equipped with a kerosene stove. Medium format negative by David Moffat Myers. View full size.
July 1939. "Gas station. Washington, D.C." Right this way to Ladies and Free Air. Medium format negative by David Moffat Myers. View full size.