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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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Pittsfield, Massachusetts, circa 1906. "Berkshire County Savings Bank." Last glimpsed here. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Washington, D.C., circa 1941. "Thomas Circle at 14th Street N.W." And yet another Peoples Drug Store. Medium format acetate negative with no photographer credit. View full size.
Washington, D.C., circa 1941. "Thomas Circle at 14th Street and Vermont Avenue N.W." Medium format acetate negative with no photographer credit. View full size.
August 1942. Washington, D.C. "Streetcar at 7th Street and Florida Avenue N.W." 4x5 inch acetate negative by Gordon Parks for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
November 1942. Washington, D.C. "First aid class of the air raid warden unit in the Southwest area. Mr. Elmer House, instructor, demonstrating the head bandage." Self-portrait by Gordon Parks for the Office of War Information. 4x5 inch acetate negative. View full size.
1906. "State bath house, Revere Beach, Massachusetts." 5x7 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
1904. "Water sports at Annisquam, Gloucester, Massachusetts." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
1913. Richmond, Virginia. "Hotel Rueger -- Bank and Ninth Streets." Now the Commonwealth Hotel. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
1907. "The beach and lobster traps -- Swampscott, Massachusetts." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Cambridge, Massachusetts, circa 1912. "Central Square and Massachusetts Avenue." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
November 1935. "Household supply store. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania." 8x10 inch nitrate negative by Walker Evans for the U.S. Resettlement Administration. View full size.
Spring 1947. "To unite jazz and dance. Choreographer Lee Sherman and dancers in rehearsal -- Radio City Music Hall, New York." Acetate negative by William Gottlieb. View full size.
December 1940. "Bath, Maine. War boom in a New England industrial town. Inside the home of Ralph Hart, a worker at the shipyards. The house is one of a small settlement of shacks springing up a few miles out of Bath." Acetate negative by Jack Delano. View full size.
December 1940. "War boom in a New England industrial town. Portrait of a shipyard worker. Bath, Maine." Photo by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
December 1940. "Winter Street, Quincy, Massachusetts. A Syrian neighborhood near the shipyards. Slum area where many shipyard workers live." Photo by Jack Delano. View full size.