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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 1942. "Wheeler, Montana. Boom town of the Fort Peck construction era, now nearly deserted." Photo by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.
March 1942. "Lewistown, Montana. Used car lot." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.
March 1942. "Flathead Valley special area project, Montana. Mrs. Lawrence Thompson, wife of the manager of the Farm Security Administration cooperative sawmill." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.
March 1942. "Helena, Montana." Now playing at the Marlow: Sullivan's Travels and Paris Calling. Acetate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.
October 1958. New York. "Cat sitting on car in parking lot with skyscrapers in the distance." 35mm acetate negative by Angelo Rizzuto. View full size.
April 1942. "Wisdom, Montana. Edge of the town." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.
Albany, New York, circa 1900. "N.Y.C. & H.R.R.R. station." Temple of the New York Central and Hudson River Rail Road, topped off by a sculptural representation of Liberty and Justice over the state motto, EXCELSIOR. Also note the small sign behind the fire hydrant: DINNER NOW READY. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
November 11, 1957. "Stedman Hanks, residence in Locust Valley, Long Island, N.Y. Axis view. Harrie Thomas Lindeberg, architect." Acetate negative by Gottscho-Schleisner. View full size.
Washington, D.C., circa 1926. "Thos. R. Shipp Co. -- Atwater Kent window display at Little & Company, 13th & I Streets N.W." More specifically, the Atwater Kent Model 30 radio. National Photo Company glass negative. View full size.
"G.A.R. -- Paul Huber." The Union Army soldier from Indiana at the Grand Army of the Republic meeting of Civil War veterans in the nation's capital. "43rd National Encampment, Prisoners of War, Washington, D.C., Sept. 27-30, 1915." National Photo glass negative. View full size.
Washington, D.C., circa 1920. "Government Printing Office, H and North Capitol Streets N.W." Affectionately known as "The Swamp." National Photo Co. glass negative. View full size.
February 1943. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. "War production workers at the Heil Company making gasoline tank trailers for the U.S. Army Air Corps. Mrs. Angeline Kwint, age 45, an ex-housewife, checking the tires of trailers. Her husband and son are in the U.S. Army." Kodachrome transparency by Howard Hollem for the Office of War Information. View full size.
September 1935. "Slums. Washington, D.C. -- Photographs show poor housing conditions contrasted with well-built homes. Children playing in slum backyards and on street. Unsanitary conditions. Former residences now used as rooming houses. General views over rooftops. Interiors and details of substandard dwellings." Nitrate negative by Carl Mydans for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.
September 1940. "General store. Ophir, Colorado, a small gold mining town on the side of a mountain." Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
October 1942. "A long line of C-47 transport planes awaits the installation of wings at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. The versatile C-47 performs many important tasks for the Army. It ferries men and cargo across oceans and mountains, tows gliders and brings paratroopers and their equipment to scenes of action." Note how, as on the photo in the previous post, certain markings on the fuselage have been scratched off the negative. Photo by Alfred Palmer for the Office of War Information. View full size.