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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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July 1938. "Slums near steel mill. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania." Medium format acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
October 1939. "George and Hugh Clarke with hybrid seed corn. Grundy County, Iowa." Medium format negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
July 1938. "Workers' homes with steel plant along Monongahela River in background. Clairton Duquesne, Pennsylvania." Medium format negative by Arthur Rothstein. View full size.
A Shorpy salute to the nation's workers on Labor Day 2020 --
July 1938. "Steel worker at rolling mill. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania." Medium format acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
June 1941. "Railroad yards. Carnegie-Illinois steel plant. Etna, Pennsylvania." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
June 1941. "Jones and Laughlin steelworks. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
June 1941. "Flag Day. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
June 1941. "Carloads of fruit and vegetables at terminal. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
June 1941. "Railroad. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
December 1940. Radford, Virginia. "Hercules Powder Plant employee going upstairs. Mrs. Pritchard's boardinghouse. Eighteen men board here." One of the gents last seen here. Acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Washington, D.C., circa 1901. "View of F Street N.W., north side, between 12th & 13th Streets, showing various business fronts along the block." 5x7 inch glass negative. View full size.
Washington, D.C., circa 1901. "View of unidentified street showing child chasing horse and buggy." The signs affixed to the building at right identify this as (520? 521?) Grant Place. Moldy 5x7 inch glass negative from the D.C. Street Survey Collection. View full size.
Washington, D.C., circa 1901. "View of E Street S.W., north side, looking east from Delaware Avenue, showing a grocery store on the corner." 5x7 inch glass negative. View full size.
Washington, D.C., circa 1901. "View of E Street S.W., looking north up First Street showing Baltimore and Mitchell Book & Job Printers." 5x7 inch glass negative. View full size.
Washington, D.C., circa 1901. "View of 21st Street N.W., east side, looking north from E Street, with dairy cart at the curb in front of a corner shop." 5x7 inch glass negative. View full size.