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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]
New Orleans circa 1890s. "The old French Market." Home to the German Grocery. 5x7 inch glass negative by William Henry Jackson. View full size.
December 1941. "Bayamon, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Proprietor of a small general store, which will soon be evacuated because it is in an area to be taken over by the Army." Medium format negative by Jack Delano. View full size.
November 1941. "In the Union Point Manufacturing Company hosiery mill, Greene County, Georgia." Medium format negative by Jack Delano. View full size.
San Francisco circa 1929. "Gurley-Lord tire service station -- vulcanizing molds." The establishment last glimpsed here. 8x10 nitrate negative. View full size.
San Francisco, 1934. "Firestone battery service." 8x10 inch nitrate negative, formerly of the Wyland Stanley collection. View full size.
October 1941. Greene County, Georgia. "Canned goods made by Doc and Julia Miller, Farm Security Administration clients with 1,000 jars of fruit, vegetables, etc. they have put up for the winter." Yet another farm family exhausted after indulging the whims of FSA photographer Jack Delano. View full size.
October 1941. "Canned goods made by Doc and Julia Miller, FSA client family with 1,000 jars of fruit, vegetables, etc. they have put up for the winter. Near White Plains, Greene County, Georgia." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
December 1941. "San Juan, Puerto Rico. In a dress factory." Medium format negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
January 1942. "San Sebastian, Puerto Rico. Boy who was playing in the street." Medium format negative by Jack Delano. View full size.
November 1940. "Main street. Delano, California." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
October 11, 1904. Bath, Maine. "Bath Iron Works -- launch of the battleship U.S.S. Georgia." 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
St. Augustine, Florida, circa 1894. "St. George Street." Our second look today at this bustling thoroughfare. Photo by William Henry Jackson. View full size.
St. Augustine, Florida, circa 1894. "St. George Street." Trading in paint, window glass and wallpaper for the old houses in the nation's oldest city. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative by William Henry Jackson. View full size.
1908. "Key Mansion, Washington, D.C." The Georgetown residence of "Star-Spangled Banner" author Francis Scott Key, transmogrified over the years into a freeway ramp. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative. View full size.
Washington, D.C., circa 1908. "The Boulevard, Potomac Park." The Washington Monument flanked by the Tidal Basin and Old Post Office. View full size.