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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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New Orleans, July 1942. "Coast Guardsman standing watch over 78-foot torpedo boat. Continual watch is kept. Higgins Industries Inc." View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Howard Hollem for the Office of War Information.
Washington, D.C., circa 1928. "Boys standing next to automobile." A Ford with congressional plates. View full size. National Photo Company glass negative.
Washington circa 1923. "Training table, Eastern High School." View full size. National Photo Company Collection glass negative, Library of Congress.
Washington, D.C., 1921 or 1922. "Union Station waiting room." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
Washington circa 1913. "District of Columbia Mail Depot." Soon to be known as the Old Post Office. View full size. National Photo Company glass negative.
Washington, January 1921. Now playing at the Leader: "Shipwrecked Among Cannibals." Just loitering outside for a few minutes is practically a graduate course in cannibal lore. View full size. National Photo Company glass negative.
Washington circa 1920. "Crandall's Savoy, interior." View full size. National Photo Company Collection glass negative, Library of Congress.
"Walter Reed physiotherapy story." Hydrotherapy in 1920 or 1921 at Walter Reed Hospital. View full size. National Photo Company glass negative.
"Walter Reed physiotherapy story." 1920 or 1921. Burdick Cabinet "Radio-Vitant ray" therapy. View full size. National Photo Company Collection glass negative.
Washington, D.C., in 1921. Another view of the Leader Theater on "Invisible Ray" day. View full size. National Photo Company Collection glass negative.
"Foster & Reynolds, exterior." The National Remembrance Shop in Washington circa 1924. View full size. National Photo Company Collection glass negative.
Washington's Leader Theater circa 1921. Now playing: The serial "Invisible Ray" and, from 1916, Douglas Fairbanks in "The Americano" and a short called "The Return of Draw Egan." National Photo Company glass negative. View full size.
Washington, D.C., circa 1921. "James L. Owens & Sons, window." An elaborate display featuring Klim powdered milk. View full size. National Photo Company.
1928. "Washington Sanitarium, Takoma Park. Operating room." View full size. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. Can you say "lobotomy"?
"Greek murder." July 1920. Two victims of a bloody altercation involving a hatchet and revolver that left three people dead in a rooming house at 809 Ninth Street in Washington. National Photo Company glass negative. View full size.