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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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May 1940. "Fountain in front of Union Station, St. Louis, Missouri." 35mm negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
August 1940. "Local talent makes music on a Sunday afternoon under the soldiers' monument. Provincetown, Massachusetts." View full size. Medium-format safety negative by Edwin Rosskam for the Farm Security Administration.
1939. Anacostia High School, Washington, D.C. "Carpentry shop." 5x7 nitrate negative, National Photo Company Collection. View full size.
April 1940. East Dubuque, Illinois. "Waiting for the train to Minneapolis." 35mm negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Puerto Rico, December 1937. "The beginning of the cockfight. When the man in the center raises the cloth, the birds will see each other and begin to fight." Medium format nitrate negative by Edwin Rosskam for the FSA. View full size.
January 1938. "Ponce, Puerto Rico. Funeral of a child." View full size. Medium format nitrate negative by Edwin Rosskam for the Farm Security Administration.
January 1938. "Interior of workers' shack. Porta de Tierra, San Juan, Puerto Rico." Note the drop-in guest. Medium format nitrate negative by Edwin Rosskam for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Missouri, May 1940. "Ozark farmer and family." View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration.
May 1940. "Advertising. Woodbine, Iowa." A tattered billboard shot by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. 35mm negative. View full size.
May 1940. "Residential street in Woodbine, Iowa." View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration.
St. Louis, May 1940. "Downtown street on Sunday morning." View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration.
May 1940. "Afternoon, downtown Des Moines, Iowa." View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration.
New York, 1959. "Stanley Hyams, co-owner of Washington Pickle Works, holding two pickles in a roomful of barreled dills." Photograph by Roger Higgins for the New York World Telegram & Sun. View full size.
"Valentine and horse." The actress Grace Valentine and an equine co-star circa 1920. View full size. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection.
1935. "Cooking Class. Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland." View full size. 5x7 safety negative, National Photo Company Collection. The classroom is described as being at Chevy Chase High in another photo.