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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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Norfolk, Virginia, circa 1917. "Merchants and Miners Wharf." Over at the pants factory: GIRLS WANTED. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative. View full size.
Circa 1910. "Forbes Field, Pittsburgh." A continuation of this image. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. 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.
Pittsburgh circa 1902. "Exposition Hall." Probably during its reconstruction after a fire the previous year. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative. View full size.
June 1940. "Trucks in service station on Bladensburg Road, Washington, D.C., U.S. Route 1." Medium format negative by Jack Delano. View full size.
April 1941. "Franklin, Heard County, Georgia. A game of pool in the general store." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano. View full size.
January 1940. "Tenants living in a crackerbox. Slum tenement in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania." Medium format negative by Jack Delano. View full size.
December 1940. "Grocery store window in Bath, Maine. Food prices do not seem to have gone up as yet but are expected to." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
April 1941. "Gas station in Franklin, nine o'clock in the evening. Heard County, Georgia." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano. View full size.
April 1941. "Mrs. Lemuel Smith, wife of Farm Security Administration borrower, preparing the afternoon meal on her farm in Carroll County, Georgia." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the FSA. View full size.
"St. Mark's Square," circa 1950. From a set of Kodachrome slides I found in an antique store, apparently taken by American tourists. The slides aren't dated, but the mounts are the type used by Kodak from 1950 to 1955. View full size.
May 1941. "Soldiers from Fort Benning in a country store near Phenix City, Alabama." Medium format negative by Jack Delano. View full size.
June 1940. "Truckers at the Capital truck comfort station on New York Avenue. U.S. No. 1, Washington, D.C." Acetate negative by Jack Delano. View full size.
May 1940. "Corner store at 11 p.m. Durham, North Carolina." Medium format negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Circa 1906. "Congregational church in Williamstown, Massachusetts." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.