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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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Circa 1905. "Twelfth Street bascule bridge over the Chicago River." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
April 1941. "Instructors in roller skating at the Savoy Ballroom in Chicago." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee. View full size.
August 1940. "The family of John Yeuser [i.e., Yenser]. Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania. Photos of East, Upper, and Lower Mauch Chunk, a small historic coal mining town in the Lehigh Valley." Medium format negative by Jack Delano. View full size.
August 1940. "One of the children of John Yeuser [Yenser] of Mauch Chunk, a coal mining town in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley." Photo by Jack Delano. View full size.
1935. "Little England, Bena vicinity, Gloucester County, Virginia." 8x10 inch acetate negative by Frances Benjamin Johnston. View full size.
July 1941. Vale, Oregon. "Baseball players and spectators stand at attention while Chief Justice Stone gives the oath of allegiance over the radio." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
July 1940. "Florida agricultural migrant with a group who had their own tent which they pitched outside the grading station at Belcross, North Carolina." Photo by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
September 1940. "House in near-deserted town of Tyler, Pennsylvania, showing abandoned coke ovens in background." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
July 1940. "In the new home of a group of migrants just arrived at Onley, Virginia. Barracks, surrounded by barbed wire fence, house Negro agricultural workers from Florida who have come to work the Eastern Shore strawberry, onion and cabbage fields in picking, grading and canning." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
December 1936. "C.D. Grant in storehouse on his farm at Penderlea Homesteads, North Carolina -- America's first farm-city. Homesteader Grant enlists aid of neighbors to butcher hogs for the winter." Medium format negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
July 1939. "Oklahoma City. Boy living in May Avenue camp with homemade ax." Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
July 1941. "Farm boys getting on the ferris wheel, one of the attractions at the Fourth of July celebration at Vale, Oregon." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
June 1941. "Street scene in Cascade, Idaho. Cascade is a microcosm of Idaho's past and present -- all the industries of the state, including lumbering, mining, agriculture, stock raising and tourist trade, are apportioned to this town and its valley." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee. View full size.
April 1941. "Candy stand run by Negro, Southside Chicago." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
One of six vessels sunk off the Atlantic coast by a German U-boat on the so-called "Black Sunday" of June 2, 1918.
Circa 1901. "S.S. La Grande Duchesse -- Plant Line steamship." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.