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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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April 1941. "Man-drawn carts are common on South Side of Chicago." 35mm negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
"Major General George Armstrong Custer, officer of the Federal Army" circa 1865. Wet plate glass negative, studio of Mathew Brady. View full size.
May 1909. Manchester, New Hampshire. "George Brown. Measures a little over 50 inches in height. Lives at No. 1 Corporation. Corner of Granite and Bedford Streets." View full size. Photo and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine.
January 1912. New Bedford, Massachusetts. Wilfred Tremblay, 1332 Davol Street, a doffer in the spinning room of Cartwright Mills; apparently 12 years old. Said: "Me brudder-in-law got me the job last summer. Been there ever since." View full size. Photograph and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine.
August 1911. New Bedford, Massachusetts. "Arthur Sarasin, 7 Acushnet Block. Works in weaving room. At his house his people said he was fourteen last week." View full size. Photograph and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine.
May 21, 1909. Manchester, New Hampshire. "A few of the small girls and boys (not the smallest ones) that I found working in the spinning room of one of the Amoskeag Mfg. Co. mills. Photo taken at 1 p.m., May 21, 1909, in hallway of spinning room. Many others there and in the other mills. Smallest boy (on left hand) is George Brown, No. 1 Corporation. Corner of Granite and Bedford Streets. Next is Eugene Lamy, 16 Marion St. Girls: Melvina Proulx, 145 Cartier St., Laura O'Clair, 145 Cartier St." View full size. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine.
Summer 1939. "Amusements on the carnival midway. Bozeman, Montana." 35mm nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the FSA. View full size.
October 1938. "Homes near the gas works. Camden, New Jersey." 35mm negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
December 1941. White Motor Company, Cleveland. "Halftrac scout cars ready for the Army except for the addition of certain pieces of Army equipment. The cars as they stand in the yard of a Midwest manufacturer are ready for combat duty." View full size. 4x5 negative by Alfred Palmer for the Office of War Information.
6 p.m., April 16, 1909. Anthony, Rhode Island. "Two boys working in Coventry Company Mill. I saw about 10 boys and girls who looked to be under 14 years of age." View full size. Photo and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine.
November 23, 1912. Providence, Rhode Island. "Housing conditions, rear of Republican Street." View full size. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine.
April 1936. "Housing alongside Chicago and Milwaukee Railroad. Milwaukee, Wisconsin." View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Carl Mydans for the FSA.
June 10, 1909. 6 a.m. Warren, Rhode Island. "Boys going to work in Warren Manufacturing Company. Plenty of youngsters here." View full size. Photograph and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine.
Summer 1939. Carnival at Bozeman, Montana. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration.
"The Sketch." 1902. Beatrice Baxter Ruyl in Newport, Rhode Island. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative by Gertrude Käsebier. View full size.