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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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October 1939. "Mrs. H.H. Poland, wife of FSA rehabilitation client, with preserved food. Mesa County, Colorado." Medium format acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
October 1937. "Sugar beet factory with trucks lined up waiting to be unloaded. East Grand Forks, Minnesota." Photo by Russell Lee for the FSA. View full size.
October 1941. "Main store for Fort Hunter, New York." Glimpsed earlier here and here. Medium format nitrate negative by John Collier. View full size.
February 1863. "Aquia Creek Landing, Virginia. Personnel in front of Quartermaster's Office. Photograph from the main Eastern theater of war, Burnside and Hooker, November 1862-April 1863." Wet plate glass negative by Alexander Gardner. View full size.
Fredericksburg, Virginia, circa 1928. "John Paul Jones House, Main Street." Home not only of the Revolutionary War naval commander but also of the Sanitary Grocery. 8x10 acetate negative by Frances Benjamin Johnston. View full size.
August 1941. "Dude from Quarter Circle U Ranch watching the rodeo at the Crow Agency Indian fair. Big Horn County, Montana." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
New York circa 1906. "Union League Club, Fifth Avenue and West 39th Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Detroit, Michigan, circa 1906. "Residences on Jefferson Avenue." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
October 1938. "Ladling cane syrup from boiling vat to concentration vat at a sugar mill near New Iberia, Louisiana." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
March 1940. "Hotel. Austin, Nevada." With a cameo by our stream-drinker. Photo by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
March 1940. "Main street. Austin, Nevada." Medium format negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
May 30, 1940. "Bertram F. Willcox residence in Pound Ridge, Westchester County, New York. Axis view, entrance facade. Moore & Hutchins, architect." Large-format acetate negative by Gottscho-Schleisner. View full size.
March 1940. "Railroad station. Carson City, Nevada." Medium format negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
March 1940. "Operating switch at railroad station. Carson City, Nevada." Photo by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
September 1937. "Old threshing machine on Herman Gerling's farm near Wheelock, North Dakota. There have been no crops for eight years." Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.