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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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Philadelphia circa 1904. "Dental Hall, University of Pennsylvania." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
June 1940. "Melrose, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. Children of mulatto family returning home after an afternoon fishing in Cane River." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
June 1940. Belle Glade, Florida. "Showers for babies, older children and parents, as well as complete laundry facilities, are provided in the utility building for members of the Osceola migratory labor camp." Photo by Marion Post Wolcott for the FSA. View full size.
June 1940. "Melrose, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. Fireplace in old mud hut built and still lived in by French mulattoes near John Henry cotton plantation. 'Uncle' Joe Rocque, about 86 years old." Photo by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
June 1940. "Melrose, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. Old cotton plantation store at Derry Plantation." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.
June 1940. "College boy trying to 'thumb' a ride home over the weekend near Natchitoches, Louisiana." Photo by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
January 1939. "Abandoned store in which coal miner on relief lives. Zeigler, Illinois." Medium format negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
February 1942. "Weslaco, Texas. Saturday afternoon baseball game at Mercer G. Evans FSA camp." Photo by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
December 1955. "Motel Wigwam Village, Orlando." Featuring Tile Baths and All the Fish. 35mm Kodachrome from the Look magazine assignment "What Is Florida?" View full size.
March 1940. "Cowhand trying saddle at saddlery in Elko, Nevada." Medium format acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
November 1937. "Store building at Alger [i.e. Archer], Sheridan County, Montana." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
November 1937. "Old building in Plentywood, Montana." Former home of the "$240 Staude." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
September 1940. "Caboose of the Rio Grande Southern narrow gauge railway. Telluride, Colorado." Acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Chicago, 1893. "Actress Lillian Russell (1860-1922), full-length portrait, seated on tiger skin." Photo by William McKenzie Morrison. View full size.
November 1938. "Omaha, Nebraska." A bird's-eye view of, among other attractions, Tri-City Barber College. Photo by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.