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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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August 1941. "Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. An automobile graveyard outside Baltimore. Scrapped cars are collected in such yards in every state. Usable parts are stripped from the chassis and the remainder of the car is sent to scrap iron dealers for processing and shipment to steel mills." Acetate negative by "Danish," Office for Emergency Management. View full size.
October 1942. Washington. D.C. "Clerical workers processing forms for production requirement plan -- Priorities Division, War Production Board." Medium format acetate negative by Howard Liberman for the Office of War Information. View full size.
August 1941. "Farm worker in beer parlor on a Sunday afternoon. Bruce Crossing, Michigan." Acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
April 1940. "Wife of Iowa farmer starting to make a cake. Greene County, Iowa." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
January 31, 1914. New York. "Golden Butterfly Dance -- Women's Political Union Suffrage Ball, 71st Regiment Armory." 5x7 glass negative, Bain News Service. View full size.
Detroit, 1929. "Skyline and boats on the Detroit River as seen from Windsor, Ontario." Gelatin silver print, Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Collection. View full size.
August 1919. "West 42nd Street east from Sixth Avenue, showing Aeolian Hall." And let's not forget the Fleischman Baths. Gelatin silver print by American Studio, New York. View full size.
Warren, Michigan, sometime in 1959. "Nineteen-Sixty Cadillac 6339 four-window Sedan de Ville at the GM Technical Center." This was a General Motors body style popularly known as the "flat top." Color transparency from the GM photographic archive. View full size.
New York, 1935. "Times Square -- The Rialto, Seventh Avenue, Broadway south from W. 46th Street, N.Y. Times building, Paramount Theatre." Gelatin silver print. View full size.
July 1941. "Two Negro supervisors and FSA borrower talk over the home problem and rebuilding of unsafe shallow wells. Saint Mary's County, Maryland." Medium format nitrate negative by John Collier for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
1938. "Shenandoah, Pennsylvania. Miner's home in the Brownsville sector." Medium format acetate negative by Sheldon Dick for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
February 1940. "Hired help resting after day's work in Upwey horse farm. South Woodstock, Vermont." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.
September 1941. "Houses in old mining town of Leadville, Colorado." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
July 1942. "Rupert, Idaho. Schoolboys in swimming lesson." Medium format nitrate negative by Russell Lee for the Office of War Information. View full size.
1908. "East Twenty-Third Street and Fourth Avenue." Anchored by the shelter of the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size.