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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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June 1941. "Rain. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Circa 1906. "High Rock Spring, Saratoga, N.Y." Yesterday's water boy makes a reappearance at the hydration gazebo, along with three coworkers and a vaguely familiar gent with a bicycle. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Circa 1906. "Interior, High Rock Spring, Saratoga, N.Y.," a.k.a. the "Medicine Spring of the Great Spirit." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Circa 1902. "Sulphite paper mill and old blockhouse. Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
1904. "Off for a fishing trip. Whitefish Bay, Ontario." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
Albany, New York, circa 1905. "Armory, 10th Battalion, New York National Guard." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
1904. "Union Station -- Dayton, O." In service from 1900 to 1979. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
1904. "Steele High School and Soldiers' Monument, Dayton, O." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
1905. "City Library -- Springfield, Mass." By 1909 this building, completed in 1871, had been uprooted and moved back 200 feet to make way for the much larger current library at the corner of State and Walnut. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Photographic Co. View full size.
Springfield, Massachusetts, circa 1908. "Hampden County Courthouse, Elm Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Marquette, Michigan, circa 1906. "Post office and City Hall." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
1905. "In Roger Williams Park -- Providence, Rhode Island." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
Hartford, Connecticut, circa 1905. "Farmington Avenue." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
Hartford, Connecticut, circa 1906. "Colt's Armory." Samuel Colt's historic firearms factory on the banks of the Connecticut River. 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size.
Hartford, Connecticut, circa 1905. "Main Street and City Hall." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.