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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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"Baltimore Fire of 1904. Electric Railway Powerhouse." Out third view from the Great Fire. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
"Montgomery High School students." An amusing (or maybe unsettling) class portrait from Montgomery County, Maryland. The Library of Congress says circa 1936; we've found a number of clues that narrow it down to 1939-40. See the comments for details. National Photo Company safety negative. View full size.
September 3, 1923. "Police and Firemen's ballgame." At Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C., Barney and Spark Plug from the popular comic strip "Barney Google." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
Silver Spring, Maryland. Typing class at Montgomery Blair High School in 1935. 5x7 safety negative, National Photo Company Collection. View full size.
"District of Columbia. Washington Loan & Trust building." A street scene circa 1907, possibly on Flag Day. National Photo glass negative. View full size.
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"Baltimore Fire of 1904. General view of South Baltimore." National Photo Company Collection glass negative, Library of Congress. View full size.
"Great Baltimore Fire of 1904. Fighting the fire on Baltimore Street." The first in a series of photographs from the fire, which burned for two days in February 1904, consuming much of downtown Baltimore. National Photo Company Collection glass negative, Library of Congress. View full size.
July 1919. "Walter Reed outing at Chesapeake Beach, Maryland." National Photo Company Collection glass negative, Library of Congress. View full size.
Washington, November 5, 1925. "National Apple Week at Walter Reed Hospital." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
"Fifth Avenue and Forty-Second Street, New York." Circa 1908, horses and motorcars shared the streets. Detroit Publishing glass negative. View full size.
"Stanley Harris, Washington Nationals." Washington manager and second baseman Stanley "Bucky" Harris at Griffith Stadium in 1925. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
September 2, 1924. Washington, D.C. "Auto house of Will A. Harris of Texas." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size. I just know there's someone out there who can tell us who these people are.
Washington, D.C., 1924. "Rosedale girls' basketball team." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
September 29, 1924. "Mrs. La Follette at Mountain Lake Park, Maryland." Belle La Follette campaigning for husband Robert La Follette, a senator from Wisconsin who ran for president as the nominee of his own Progressive Party in 1924. Eight months after winning 17 percent of the vote in the general election, he died. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.