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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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1961. Mount Clemens, Michigan. "Mount Clemens Savings and Loan. Meathe, Kessler & Associates, architects." Medium format negative by Balthazar Korab. View full size.
New York, 1936. "Beauty & fitness expert Sylvia Ulback, Madame Sylvia of Hollywood, posing with duckpins shaped like penguins." Photo by Ray Lee Jackson, NBC Studio. View full size.
June 8, 1968. "Funeral cortege of Robert F. Kennedy." Mourners viewing RFK's funeral train as it made its way from New York to Washington after his assassination. 35mm Kodachrome from photos by Paul Fusco and Thomas Koeniges for Look magazine. View full size.
May 1942. "Philadelphia Quartermaster Corps. The tradition of Betsy Ross is being kept alive in this Quartermaster Corps depot, where a young woman worker assists in the creation of American flags for military activities." Happy Flag Day from Shorpy! 4x5 inch acetate negative by Howard Liberman for the Office of War Information. View full size.
June 1940. "Buying dress goods in project cooperative store. Transylvania Resettlement Project, Louisiana." Medium acetate format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
June 1940. Schriever, Louisiana. "Cajun children on Terrebonne Farms Project." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
June 1940. "Some of the younger Osceola migratory camp members who have come to the post office in Belle Glade, Florida, for their mail." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Los Angeles, 1955. "Comedians George Burns and Gracie Allen." Color transparency for the Look magazine assignment "Fall TV Preview." View full size.
Circa 1907. "Coal wharves at Portsmouth, New Hampshire." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Hartford, Conn., circa 1907. "Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co., Main and Pearl Streets." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Hartford, Connecticut, circa 1907. "Hartford Fire Insurance Co." On what looks to be Take Your Boy to Work Day. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
June 13, 1963. "Nonchalantly slurping his Earth-made ice cream cone, 5-year-old David Rowan appears awed with the eerie surroundings before him. The youngster was visiting the moon-like landscape of the space research laboratories at Republic Aviation in Farmingdale, Long Island, N.Y." United Press International Telephoto. View full size.
Washington, D.C., circa 1923. "Janet Moffett, debutante daughter of Rear Admiral Moffett." 5x7 inch glass negative, Harris & Ewing Collection. View full size.
November 1936. "Burial ground in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania." Medium format negative by Edwin Locke for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.
May 1939. Washington, D.C. "Crossing F Street in front of Garfinckel's department store on 14th Street N.W." Medium format acetate negative. View full size.