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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.
[REV 25-NOV-2014]
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, circa 1912. "North Street looking south." Here's looking at you, kid. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Chattanooga, Tennessee, circa 1908. "Hotel Patten, Market and 11th Streets." Completed in 1908 and still standing. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Mobile, Alabama, circa 1900. "Government Street." Where literal pitfalls await the unwary. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
"Livingstone Channel -- steam shovel removing rock loosened by dynamite." Circa 1910, construction of the navigation channel along the Detroit River. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
July 4, 1939. "Fourth of July celebration -- St. Helena Island, South Carolina." 35mm color transparency by Marion post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
1909. "Entrance to The Kittatinny, Delaware Water Gap, Pa." Our second glimpse of this rustic resort in as many days. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Circa 1909. "Kittatinny House, west front, Delaware Water Gap, Pennsylvania." BTTG date: 1931. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
1908. "Main Street -- Plymouth, New Hampshire." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
April 1919. "Detroit -- Fyfe Building and United Methodist Church from Grand Circus Park." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
The Steel Pier circa 1910. "Watching the bathers -- Atlantic City, New Jersey." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
"Elks Temple, Monroe Avenue, Detroit." Next door to the Temple Theatre, where a poster advertises performances the week of May 1, 1910, of "School Boys and Girls," starring the English boy soprano Albert Hole. 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. View full size.
Buffalo, New York, circa 1910. "Hotel Iroquois, Eagle and Main streets." Our third look at this imposing edifice. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Circa 1907. "Highland Street -- Plymouth, New Hampshire." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Buffalo, New York, circa 1905. "Buffalo Club -- Trinity Place and Delaware Avenue." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
Atlantic City, New Jersey, circa 1905. "A few sailboats off the pier." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Florida, 1894. "Bridge on Alligator Creek." 8x10 inch glass negative by William Henry Jackson, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.