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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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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.
New York circa 1911. "Girls' High School, Nostrand Avenue and Macon Street, Brooklyn." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Gloucester, Massachusetts, circa 1905. "Cod -- weighing the catch." 5x7 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
July 1941. "Home supervisor, while making home visit to FSA borrower, inspects water supply for repair. Charles County near La Plata, Maryland." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
July 1941. "Boy Scouts inspecting and learning about Army equipment in Commerce Square, Washington, D.C." Acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.
June 1941. "Freight depot in Hartford, Connecticut." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
July 1941. "Bridge from Hartford to East Hartford, Connecticut." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
December 1941. "Christiansted, Saint Croix, Virgin Islands. The laundry at the Christiansted hospital. Here all the linen for the hospital is washed." Photo by Jack Delano. View full size.