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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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Washington, August 1923. "Star orphan excursion." View full size. 4x5 glass negative from the National Photo Company Collection.
April 1937. "Rooming house in slum district, Washington, D.C." View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration.
November 24, 1923. Miss Anita Phipps, director of women's relations for the War Department. View full size. National Photo Company Collection.
October 1939. "Hay forks. Northern Oregon farm. Morrow County, Oregon." View full size. Medium-format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the FSA.
October 1939. "Another corner of Soper kitchen. Willow Creek area, Malheur County, Oregon." View full size. Nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange.
1941. "Completed sanitary privy in Minnesota being inspected by farmer and engineer of Farm Security Administration." View full size. Medium format safety negative by Shipman for the Farm Security Administration.
January 1941. Lowell, Mass. "Commuters who have just come off the train, waiting for the bus to go home." 35mm Kodachrome by Jack Delano. View full size.
March 1944. Washington, D.C. St. Patrick's Day dance at the Washington labor canteen, sponsored by the United Federal Workers of America, Congress of Industrial Organizations. View full size. Medium format safety negative by Joseph A. Horne for the Office of War Information.
Washington area, 1922. "Railroad wreck." View full size. National Photo Company Collection. The tilted camera gives a nice arrangement of diagonals.
October 1935. "A cider and apple stand on the Lee Highway, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia." View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein.
August 1935. Shelling peanuts in Wolf Creek, Georgia. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration.
From July 1921, the Krazy Kat club off Thomas Circle in Washington, with Cleon Throckmorton to the right. View full size. National Photo Company Collection.
July 1937. "Louisiana Negress." View full size. Medium-format nitrate negative and caption by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration.