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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 1940. San Angelo, Texas. "Watching the parade which opened the Fat Stock Show." Acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
March 1940. "Entrance to farm in San Patricio County, Texas." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
April 1963. The latest from Don Cox is this Kodachrome of Market Street at Sixth in San Francisco. Now playing at the Loew's Warfield: two 1951 films, "The Great Caruso" and "Show Boat." Across the street: Charlton Heston in the more recent "Diamond Head." View full size.
November 1937. "Radio microphone used in information work. United States Department of Agriculture." The subject here seems to be soil conservation. Medium format acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
March 1940. "Water storage tank at wool and mohair scouring plant in San Marcos, Texas." Acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
July 1941. "Getting potatoes from bucket in potato race at the Fourth of July celebration in Vale, Oregon." Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
May 1941. Malheur County, Oregon. "Glory hole of the Owyhee Reservoir. Water for the Vale-Owyhee irrigation project is impounded here." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
June 1941. "Filling station and store across the street from the FSA labor camp. Caldwell, Idaho." Acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
January 1942. "Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Burning a sugar cane field. This is a process that destroys the leaves and makes the sugar cane easier to harvest." Acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.
June 1941. "The center of Woodville. Greene County, Georgia." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
The NUGGET has earned the reputation of being Carson City's "Monte Carlo," because it features a complete Casino with the most generous slot machines in Nevada, and has excellent bars and the finest food served anywhere on the continent.
January 1964. "Carson City, Nevada." The latest dispatch from Don Cox takes us to the intersection of Carson and Spear, home of the Nugget Casino. View full size.
1904. Rutland, Vermont. "Dorr place (The Maples) & Dorr Road. Residence of Mrs. Julia C.R. Dorr." Noted author and poet. Composite of two 8x10 inch glass negatives. View full size.
New Haven, Connecticut, circa 1905. "Divinity School, Yale University." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
Syracuse, N.Y., circa 1905. "New York Central Railroad depot." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
New Haven, Connecticut, circa 1900. "Temple Street and churches on the Green." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.