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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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October 1941. "Stockyards and flour mill. Wichita, Kansas." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
June 1939. "Shady side of main street. Elkins, West Virginia." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.
September 1939. "Children who live at Greendale, Wisconsin, a model community planned by the Suburban Division of the U.S. Resettlement Administration." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.
September 1941. "Buildings on main street of ghost town. Judith Basin County, Montana." Another look at the hamlet of Geyser, which seems to have an affinity for "Kandy." Acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
August 1941. "Dude girl with two cowboys at a Saturday night dance in Birney, Montana." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.
August 1941. "Rail yard and grain elevators. Minot, North Dakota," a.k.a. "The Magic City." Acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
September 1941. "Building on main street of ghost town. Judith Basin County, Montana." The Home Cafe / Kandy Kitchen / Eat Shop. Also, Rooms. Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
August 1941. "Grain storage elevators. Havre, Montana." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
July 1941. "Italian day laborer with basket of beans she has just picked. Seabrook Farms, Bridgeton, New Jersey." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
October 23, 1959. "Bloomingdale's, Hackensack, New Jersey. Escalators. Raymond Loewy, client." 4x5 inch acetate negative by Gottscho-Schleisner. View full size.
June 1942. "Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. Gas demonstration. Soldiers wearing gas masks after having been sprayed with gas from a plane." Photo by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.
Circa 1905. "Roller skating -- young man on bicycle skates." Photoprint by Hall; George Grantham Bain Collection. View full size.
June 1954. "Singer Nat King Cole performing in a nightclub." Color transparency from the Look magazine assignment "Melancholy Monarch." View full size.
Manhattan circa 1910. "Park Place (City Hall Park) and New York City Hall." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
New York circa 1911. "Whitehall buildings from Battery Park." The Whitehall Building of 1902-04 ("Lesser Whitehall") and the Greater Whitehall annex of 1908-1910. View full size.