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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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October 1968. "Entertainer Jimmy Durante performing nightclub act with showgirls." 35mm negative from photos by Bob Lerner for the Look magazine assignment "Pinocchio Lives!" View full size.
January 1941. "Negro church in mill district of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania." Acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
New York, 1923. "Miss Sylvia B. Fisch listening in to a radio program." Photo by Morris Rosenfeld. View full size.
Saginaw, Michigan, circa 1908. "Houses on South Weadock Avenue." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Named for the seven sons of shipbuilder Simon Langell, the steam barge "Langell Boys", launched in 1890, hauled lumber until she burned and sank in Lake Huron in 1931.
Circa 1908. "Lumber hooker Langell Boys unloading at Saginaw, Michigan." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, circa 1900. "Near Mount Pleasant." Looming in the background, Mount Pleasant House. 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size.
January 1941. "Workers' houses near Pittsburgh Crucible Steel Company in Midland, Pennsylvania." Acetate negative by Jack Delano. View full size.
January 1941. "Main street in the steel town of Midland, Pennsylvania." Acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
January 1941. "One of the houses in the Negro quarter of Rochester, Pennsylvania. Abandoned glass works in background." Medium format negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
March 1941. "Traffic on the main street of Fayetteville, North Carolina at about five o'clock, when the workers start coming out at Fort Bragg." Medium format negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
The gift-unwrapping frenzy past, and despite his being nearly crowded out of the frame, my father seems to be finding serenity by returning to normal daily routine, i.e. reading in his leather chair. Usually it would be the daily papers, but note the reserve stock of various publications overflowing the magazine rack. The tree and its environs can be seen pre-frenzy here in a post I made ten years ago. This shot was taken by my sister on 2-1/4-square transparency film. (Guess which of the discernible presents is obviously mine?) View full size.
January 1941. "The end of the afternoon shift at the Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation. Aliquippa, Pennsylvania." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
January 1941. "Scene in west Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. Stacks of the Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation in background." Medium format negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
January 1941. "Little boy in Freedom, Pennsylvania." Medium format negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
January 1941. "Mill district of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Long stairway in a working class section." Acetate negative by Jack Delano. View full size.