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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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June 1941. "Farm worker's wife teaches her baby girl to walk at the FSA labor camp. Caldwell, Idaho." Medium format negative by Russell Lee. View full size.
1939. "New York, New York. Corner of First Avenue and East 62nd Street." Current location of the Ritz Diner. Photo by Sheldon Dick. View full size.
1938. "New York, New York. East 63rd Street apartments." Medium format negative by Sheldon Dick for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
1938. "New York, New York. John Montefiori's sister-in-law in her kitchen at 340 East 63rd Street. Mr. Montefiori, tenant and janitor of the building, works in a sculpture factory that turns out the little white horses for White Horse Whisky, etc." Medium format acetate negative by Sheldon Dick. View full size.
1938. "New York, New York. A boy sleeping at his home on East 62nd (or 63rd) Street." Medium format acetate negative by Sheldon Dick. View full size.
New York, 1938. "East 62nd Street." Medium format acetate negative by Sheldon Dick for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
New York, 1938. "Woman and girls at the back of an apartment house on East 63rd Street." Medium format negative by Sheldon Dick. View full size.
June 1941. "Family of Marine in their living room. They live in one of the units of the Navy defense housing project which is designed for Naval people, Marines and some civilian defense workers. San Diego, California." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
1938. "New York, New York. East 62nd Street." Where this two-masted schooner sets sail every washday. Acetate negative by Sheldon Dick. View full size.
May 1941. "Child at FSA migratory labor camp mobile unit. Wilder, Idaho." Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
May 1941. "Marines riding the electric automobiles at Mission Beach amusement center, San Diego." Medium format negative by Russell Lee. View full size.
May 1941. "Farm worker with his wife and their twin babies at the FSA migratory labor camp mobile unit. Wilder, Idaho." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
January 1939. "Clean clothes. Carrier Mills, Saline County, Illinois." Photo by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
January 1939. "West Mine, West Frankfort, Illinois. Now abandoned. This mine has been down about a year." Photo by Arthur Rothstein. View full size.
The Niagara River circa 1901. "International (Upper Steel Arch) Bridge from below at Niagara Falls." At the landing: The steamboat Maid of the Mist, "nymph of the mighty cataract." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative. View full size.