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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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April 1941. "Family of Lemuel Smith, Farm Security Administration borrower, saying grace at the afternoon meal. Carroll County, Georgia." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the FSA. View full size.
November 28, 1940. Ledyard, Connecticut. "The family of Mr. Timothy Levy Crouch, a Rogerene Quaker, at their annual Thanksgiving Day dinner. A twenty-pound turkey was dispensed with in short order." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Circa 1906. "Entrance, N.Y.C. & H.R. R.R. station, Albany, New York." The Beaux-Arts depot of the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad, also known as Albany Union Station. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative. View full size.
Albany, New York, circa 1904. "Pearl Street north from State Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
1954. "Harley Earl, General Motors Vice President of Design, in Frigidaire's 'Kitchen of Tomorrow' exhibit for the GM Motorama at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York." Flanking the Range of Tomorrow we have, on the right, the Rotisserie Oven of Next Wednesday; on the left, stowed in the down position, is an "Electronic Oven," which is what they called microwaves back in the day. Color transparency by Arthur Rothstein for Look magazine. View full size.
Los Angeles, 1955. "Comedians George Burns and Gracie Allen." Color transparency for the Look magazine assignment "Fall TV Preview." View full size.
August 1940. Carbon County, Pennsylvania. "Street in Upper Mauch Chunk, a small historic coal mining town in the Lehigh Valley." Medium format negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
August 1940. "Miner at Dougherty's mine, near Falls Creek, Pennsylvania." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano. View full size.
September 1940. "Mr. T.J. Long, president of the Tri-County Farmers Co-op Market in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, at his work in a railroad tower near Du Bois." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano. View full size.
December 1940. "One of the daughters of Mr. Ilullo, Italian FSA client and truck gardener. She is preparing spaghetti and meatballs. Portsmouth, Rhode Island." Photo by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
June 1941. "Dressing crates of peas for shipment. Canyon County, Idaho." Acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
December 1940. "The family of John Kelly, who works in the Navy yard in South Boston. Their present tenement in Quincy is completely inadequate. They have been unable to move because every real estate agent has turned him down, claiming there was no reason why they should rent to large families when there is such a great demand for decent houses by hundreds of incoming shipyard workers." Medium format negative by Jack Delano. View full size.
January 1941. "Store going out of business. Lowell, Massachusetts." Acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Dec. 1940. Portsmouth, Rhode Island. "Mrs. Botello and her sister, Portuguese FSA clients." Farm Security Administration photo by Jack Delano. View full size.
January 1941. "Textile mill working all night in Lowell, Massachusetts." Acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.