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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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March 1943. "Fort Madison, Iowa. Mr. H.D. Tyres, yardmaster on the route of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad." Photo by Jack Delano, Office of War Information. View full size.
February 1943. "Albuquerque, New Mexico. Stores on West Central Avenue." An alternate view of this corner. Acetate negative by John Collier for the Office of War Information. View full size.
Detroit circa 1911. "Frederick Stearns and Company laboratory from southeast." This pharmaceutical manufacturing plant and office building, at the corner of Jefferson Avenue and Bellevue Street, has since been repurposed into the Lofts at Rivertown condominiums. Minus the ivy. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, circa 1912. "A group of skyscrapers." Behind the sapling, the Wabash Bridge over the Monongahela River; in the distance, the Sixth Street Bridge over the Allegheny. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
February 1943. "Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Hotel Franciscan on Central Avenue." Medium format acetate negative by John Collier for the Office of War Information. View full size.
March 1943. "Baltimore, Maryland. Associated Transport Company trucking terminal. 'Yard jockeys' or 'spotters' drive trucks around the terminal and back them up to the loading platform." Acetate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.
February 1943. "Madison, Wisconsin. Farm short course at the University of Wisconsin. The cafeteria in the school." Photo by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.
February 1943. "Madison, Wisconsin. Farm short course at the University of Wisconsin. Robert A. Janowski, who is eighteen years old and a high school graduate, comes from a sixty-four acre farm of which five acres are cultivated. His father works as an automobile mechanic in Chicago." Acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.
March 1943. "Baltimore, Maryland. Associated Transport trucking terminal. Truck loaded with explosives." Acetate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.
March 1943. "Baltimore, Maryland. Associated Transport Company trucking terminal. Truck service shop." Photo by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.
February 1943. "Truckers talking outside a diner on U.S. Highway 40 in Delaware." Acetate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.
February 1943. "Farm short course at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Jack McGraw of Ladysmith polishing hooves of the horse he is entering in the livestock show at the Wisconsin 'Little International'." Photo by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.
Maintenance being done on the USS Potomac (AT-50) in Dry Dock No. 1 of League Island (Philadelphia Naval Yard) in 1907. 6½ x 8½ inch glass negative. View full size.
February 1943. "Albuquerque, New Mexico. Central Avenue and Fourth Street." Acetate negative by John Collier for the Office of War Information. View full size.
February 1943. "New York, New York. Associated Transport Company trucking terminal on Washington Street. Loading goods on a southbound transport." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.