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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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February 1942. "Zell, South Dakota. Community hall." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.
April 1942. "Wisdom, Montana. The Ansons visit their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Len Smith." Acetate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.
February 1942. "Roscoe, South Dakota. Younger boys are standing in front of the pool halls this year." Acetate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.
February 1942. "Hettinger, North Dakota. Street scene after a snowstorm." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.
February 1942. "Norwood, Carver County, Minnesota." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.
Washington, D.C., circa 1903. "Army and Navy Club." The building, at 17th and I Streets N.W., last seen here, was completed in 1891. Photo by William Henry Jackson. View full size.
Alma, Michigan, circa 1901. "Alma Sugar Co. factory." An early manifestation of the state's sugarbeet boom. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
1901. "The Harbor from Newport House, Bar Harbor, Mount Desert Island, Maine." Panorama made from two 8x10 inch glass negatives. Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
Lower Manhattan circa 1903. "Hanover National Bank Bldg., New York City." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
March 23, 1903. "High water at the New Orleans, Louisiana, levee, Mississippi River." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
The Detroit River circa 1910. "Wayne Hotel and pavilion from the river." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
October 1959. "Lord & Taylor department store, Washington-Chevy Chase. View to south facade." 4x5 inch acetate negative by Gottscho-Schleisner. View full size.
September 1941. "South Royalton, Vermont. The main street." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
October 1940. "Along U.S. Highway No. 1 -- street scene in Caribou, Maine." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
March 1941. "Traffic on the main street of Fayetteville, North Carolina, at about five o'clock, when the workers start coming out of Fort Bragg." Photo by Jack Delano. View full size.