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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.
[REV 25-NOV-2014]
March 1965. "The King Sisters in rehearsal for musical variety series The King Family on ABC-TV." 35mm Kodachrome transparency by John Vachon for Look magazine. View full size.
Cleveland circa 1900. "Superior Avenue at City Square." At right, the brand-new Williamson Building. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
New York, 1900. "Broadway looking north from Dey Street." Rising at left, the Western Union Telegraph Building. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
Cambridge, Massachusetts, circa 1911. "The 'Gold Coast' -- Dormitories of wealthy students." Mount Auburn Street, with Ridgely Hall and Claverly Hall on the left; the whimsical Harvard Lampoon building on the right. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. View full size.
Cleveland circa 1910. "Lift Bridge (raised) and Superior Avenue Viaduct (swing bridge at left), Cuyahoga River." 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Chicago circa 1910. "State Street, south from Randolph." On the left we see the Masonic Temple and Marshall Field department store buildings. 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size.
Atlantic City, New Jersey, circa 1910. "The Boardwalk at night." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Chicago circa 1910. "State Street north from Madison." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
May 1903. New York. "Newsboys at Greeley Square." Our title is a word salad plucked fresh from this 8x10 inch glass negative. Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
Detroit circa 1905. "Woodward Avenue north from Jefferson." A phantasmagoria of signage advertising vaudeville, soap, cigars and the mandatory Painless Dental Parlors (your choice of Laughing Gas or "Vitalized Air"). 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. View full size.
1906. "Washington Street -- Vicksburg, Mississippi." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
1903. "Bathers and the Iron Pier -- West Brighton Beach, Coney Island, N.Y." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
Boston, 1900. "Home of Paul Revere, North Square." The British were coming, and the Italians, too. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
April 1942. "Portuguese-American communities in California. Main street (East 14th at Callan) in San Leandro." Our title is in honor of that low-slung, supercharged Graham Hollywood -- one of the decade's quirkier cars -- parked at the curb. Acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Foreign Information Service of the U.S. Office of Coordinator of Information. View full size.
Detroit, 1910. "Michigan Avenue at Griswold Street and Lafayette Boulevard." Where Drs. Kennedy & Kergan's giant electrified sign advertises their MEN CURE. And, across the street, we have Stereopticons and Reflectoscopes. 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size.