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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. "Stacks at the Pittsburgh Crucible Steel Company in Midland, Pennsylvania." Medium format negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
April 1941. "Store in Franklin, Heard County, Georgia." Ask about our big Fall sale! Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
August 1941. "Son of a dairy farmer near Rutland, Vermont." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
July 1941. "Merritt Parkway to New Haven, Connecticut." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
August 1941. "Pittsburgh along the Monongahela River." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
January 1941. "Street in the mill town of Midland, Pennsylvania." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
September 1938. "Buying groceries in community store. Tygart Valley, West Virginia." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
March 1940. "Old mill dynamited to avoid taxes after it was shut down about 1930. Berlin, New Hampshire, a paper mill town inhabited largely by French-Canadians and Scandinavians." Acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Circa 1910. "Twenty-Third Street piers, North River, New York, N.Y." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
1906. Charleston, South Carolina. "East Broad Street." With a view of the Exchange Building & Custom House. 5x7 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
November 1938. "San Joaquin County, Calif. Pumpkins in barnyard to feed cows of rehabilitation client." Photo by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
The Dimotakis family farm in Manteca, California, was virtually self-sufficient and grew a variety of fruits: figs, apricots, peaches, loquats, dates, oranges, lemons, limes, mulberries, melons and grapes; vegetables and nuts: peas, beans, zucchini, avocados, olives, pecans, walnuts, almonds. It also included a functioning olive oil plant, dairy and aviary, and livestock, and there was an outdoor wood-burning oven for bread baking; and they kept bees for gathering honey. Most weekends there was a social gathering around food and drink that often included a goat or lamb rotating on a spit. (Source: Cathy Rundell, 2010, descendant of the Dimotakis family, owners of the farm in 1938.)
1906. "Washington Park -- Charleston, South Carolina." The bust is of Charleston native son Henry Timrod, "poet laureate of the Confederacy," backdropped by the Washington Light Infantry Obelisk, a Civil War monument. 5x7 inch glass negative. View full size.
Providence, Rhode Island, 1906. "Library, Brown University." The building currently known as Robinson Hall. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
1906. "The Arcade -- Providence, Rhode Island." This 1828 Greek Revival structure, fronting on Westminster and Weybosset streets, bills itself as the first enclosed shopping mall in the United States. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Fairfax County, Virginia, 1902. "Mount Vernon -- Washington's tomb." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.