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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.
[REV 25-NOV-2014]
Volusia County, Florida, circa 1897. "In the Ormond hammock." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative by William Henry Jackson, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
May 22, 1928. "Woolworth tower in clouds, New York City." Photo by Fairchild Aerial Surveys Inc. View full size.
October 1940. "Durham, North Carolina. Five Points, center of city, with Chesterfield cigarette factories in background." Acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.
October 1940. "Home demonstration booth at the Caswell County fair. Yanceyville, North Carolina." Photo by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Savannah, Georgia, circa 1906. "Pulaski House, Bull and St. Julian streets." The venerable hotel and its "Tonsorial Parlor." 5x7 inch dry plate glass negative. View full size.
Savannah, Georgia, circa 1906. "Bull Street and Johnson Square -- National Bank of Savannah." With a supporting role played by the Pulaski House Tonsorial Parlor. 5x7 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
October 1940. "Old country store. Prospect Hill, Caswell County, North Carolina." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
I oink, therefore I ham.
November 1940. "Hog killing near Luray, Virginia." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
November 1940. "S.H. Castle's vegetables and canned goods [more here] raised on his farm in his new storage house. Southern Appalachian Project near Barbourville, Knox County, Kentucky." Photo by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
October 1940. "Durham, North Carolina. Five Points, center of city, with Chesterfield cigarette factories in background." Acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.
November 1940. "Two of Dutton ('Dut') Calleb's sons watering the mule. Southern Appalachian Project near Barbourville, Knox County, Kentucky." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
February 1910. "10 a.m. Saturday. 36 Laight Street, New York. Florence Lieto, 10 years old; Jennie Macola, 10 years old (hidden); Mamie Macola, 8; Nicholas Macola, 6. Picking coffee sweepings. The sweepings cost 25 cents a sack at the warehouse, and picked-over coffee sells at about 12 cents a pound. Man working with sore hand tied up in bandage. Children work after school hours and on Saturdays." Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size.
October 1939. "Tourist court in Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta. Everything is named 'cotton boll' in the Delta." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.
San Francisco circa 1926. "Willys-Knight Great Six four-passenger coupe at Golden Gate Park." With the Spreckels Temple of Music as backdrop. 5x7 glass negative by Christopher Helin. Today's reading from the Shorpy Bible of Betasseled Barouches. View full size.
June 1939. "Community swimming pool at Greenbelt, Maryland." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.