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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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Detroit circa 1915. "Woodward Avenue -- Whitney Building and Grand Circus Park." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
1918. "Federal truck -- San Francisco Casket Co." Makers of the box you'll go in. A sobering scene from the depths of the Spanish Flu epidemic. 5x7 inch glass negative by Christopher Helin. View full size.
Boston circa 1908. "Hotel Thorndike, Boylston and Church Streets." The establishment last seen here, minus the bulb-studded rooftop sign. 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size.
October 1941. Cowlitz County, Washington. "Holdings and operations of the Long Bell Lumber Company. Highway goes under wooden trestle for railroad." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
October 1941. "Waterfront of Bay City, Oregon, a fishing town." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
September 1941. Hermiston, Oregon. "When workmen at the Umatilla ordnance depot broke a world record by pouring concrete for twenty-four igloos in twenty-four hours, the contractor threw a beer party for them." (The "igloos" were concrete bunkers for storing munitions.) Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee. View full size.
September 1941. Hermiston, Oregon. "Housing for workmen at the Umatilla ordnance depot discloses its temporary nature by the unfinished interior." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
September 1941. Hermiston, Oregon. "Crowded halls in high school between classes." Another look at the Kids in the Hall last seen here, including That Guy With the Eyebrows. Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
September 1941. "By the Pacific Ocean. Seaside, Oregon." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
October 1941. "Lumberjack ready to sink the hook into a log. Long Bell Lumber Company, Cowlitz County, Washington." Acetate negative by Russell Lee. View full size.
September 1941. "High school boys and girls. Hermiston, Oregon." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
September 1941. "Sign. Seaside, Oregon." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
September 1941. "Traffic on main street of Hermiston, Oregon. Defense boom town housing workers for the Umatilla Ordnance Depot." Acetate negative by Russell Lee. View full size.
October 1941. Bremerton, Washington. "Navy shipyard workers in the community room for women at the FSA duration dormitories." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Washington, D.C., 1927. "Cadillac Motor Co. window." The Washington-Cadillac showroom on Connecticut Avenue. At left, a vintage Cadillac; at right, the new LaSalle, in the first year for Cadillac's "companion make." National Photo Company glass negative. View full size.