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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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May 1942. Washington, D.C. "Student's car in front of University Club on K Street N.W." Medium format negative by John Ferrell for the Office of War Information. View full size.
Spring 1940. "Bank and flour mill elevators in Mount Airy, Maryland." Medium format acetate negative by Edwin Rosskam for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
1938. Washington, D.C. "400-subject two-way postage stamp perforating machine at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing." Acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein. View full size.
December 1941. "New York, New York. Entrance to one of Father Divine's 'Heavens' on the East Side." Medium format acetate negative by Edwin Rosskam. View full size.
Spring 1939. "Drugstore window in Washington, D.C." Medium format acetate negative by David Moffat Myers for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Spring 1939. "Waiting for stoplight in Washington, D.C." Medium format acetate negative by David Moffat Myers for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
June 1939. "Signs at highway intersection. Three Forks, Montana." Medium format acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
October 1940. "Boy picking potatoes on a large farm near Caribou, Maine. Schools do not open until the potatoes are harvested." Medium format negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
November 1939. "Main street in South Boston, Halifax County, Virginia." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
March 1940. "Going to town. Woodstock, Vermont." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
June 1941. "Five-cent hot lunches at the Woodville public school. Greene County, Georgia." Medium format negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Doris Day, the freckle-faced movie actress whose irrepressible personality and golden voice made her America’s top box-office star in the early 1960s, died on Monday at her home in Carmel Valley, California. She was 97.
— New York TimesSeptember 1953. "Singer-actress Doris Day on the set of the film musical Calamity Jane." Color transparency for the Look magazine assignment "Doris Day." View full size | More Doris
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September 1940. "Farm woman holding one of her children in submarginal area of Rumsey Hill, near Erin, New York." Happy Mother's Day from Shorpy! Medium format negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Detroit circa 1908. "Detroit City Gas Co. building, Washington Boulevard and Clifford Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.