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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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March 1941. "Effigies of George Washington, Joe Louis and some criminal in a traveling sideshow 'crime museum.' Washington and Joe Louis are examples of 'what you may become if you go straight.' Near Fort Bragg, North Carolina." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano. View full size.
January 1941. "Outside a large textile mill in New Bedford, Massachusetts." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano. View full size.
March 1941. "A traveling side-show. 'Crime Museum,' consisting of dilapidated effigies of famous criminals run by an old, shell-shocked World War veteran. Near Fort Bragg, North Carolina." Acetate negative by Jack Delano. View full size.
From Columbus, Georgia, or vicinity circa 1959 comes this uncaptioned shot of the young marksman last seen here. 4x5 inch acetate negative. View full size.
San Francisco, 1920. "Standard Eight touring car." Today's entry in the Shorpy Digest of Dingy Digits. 5x7 glass negative by Christopher Helin. View full size.
December 1940. "Manuel Andrews, a Portuguese boy near Falmouth, Massachusetts. Family runs a seven-acre vegetable farm and have one 'new' cow of which they are all very proud. Father is a laborer in an Army camp nearby. Shot was taken just after Christmas." The tree decorated with ceramic figures of Mary, Joseph and Geronimo. Acetate negative by Jack Delano. View full size.
Indianapolis circa 1906. "Masonic Temple, Washington Street & Capitol Avenue." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
October 1940. "Harvesting potatoes with a single-row tractor-drawn digger on a farm near Caribou, Maine." Acetate negative by Jack Delano. View full size.
December 1940. "Christmas trees for sale at a gas station. Woonsocket, Rhode Island." Medium format negative by Jack Delano. View full size.
October 1940. "Harvesting potatoes with a single-row tractor-drawn digger on a farm near Caribou, Maine." Acetate negative by Jack Delano. View full size.
January 1941. New Bedford, Massachusetts. "Bringing home some salvaged firewood in a slum area." Photo by Jack Delano. View full size.
January 1941. Andover, Massachusetts. "One of the sons of Anthony Forgetta, Italian vegetable farmer, feeding the horse after coming home from school. Mr. Forgetta and a daughter work at the mills nearby." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
April 1941. "Row of houses on East Charlton Street, Savannah, Georgia." Acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
April 1941. "Mr. and Mrs. Lemuel Smith and their younger children in their farm house, Carroll County, Georgia." Acetate negative by Jack Delano. View full size.
April 1941. "Mrs. Lemuel Smith still has some canned goods left over from the winter. Carroll County, Georgia." Photo by Jack Delano. View full size.