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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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February 1940. "Railway station in North Conway, New Hampshire." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
March 1940. "Berlin, New Hampshire -- paper mill town inhabited largely by French-Canadians and Scandinavians." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.
June 1940. "Highway near Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
January 1939. "Lake Harbor, Florida. Negro agricultural laborers watching one of their houses burn to the ground. All they have left is piled on the ground." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
August 1940. "Street scene in Natchez, Mississippi." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
August 1940. "Kentucky. Louisville waterfront along the Ohio River." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
July 1940. "Canoeing on the Ohio River on Saturday. Louisville, Kentucky." Ladies and gentlemen, meet Bob. Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.
Lake Erie circa 1901. "Ore docks and harbor -- Cleveland, O." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
November 1936. "Squatter camp on the flat where families live during the orange picking season near Porterville. Part of migrant family of five, native Californians, waiting for work in the groves." Photo by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
March 1940. "Basque sheepherder camped on the range. Dangberg Ranch, Douglas County, Nevada." Photo by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Richmond, Virginia, circa 1905. "Ladies Hollywood Memorial Association -- Monument to Confederate dead, Hollywood Cemetery." 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size.
July 1936. "One of the largest sawmills in the world. Employs many of the Resettlement Administration homesteaders at Longview, Cowlitz County, Washington." Medium format negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.
Circa 1900. "Ormond, Florida. Princess Issena at Tomoka landing." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
1912: My father (right) and his younger brother pose for a traveling photographer outside their home in Santa Rosa, California. 1985: 73 years later, they reenact the photo for my sister in our yard in Larkspur on May 25, 1985. This was the last time they were together; my father passed away six months later, and my uncle in 1988. View full size.
Calumet, Michigan, circa 1906. "Copper mining. Hoisting engine, Tamarack No. 5 Shaft." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.