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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Vintage photos of:
January 5, 1926. "Miss Mary C. Foley, artist at Department of Agriculture." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
"Washington Baseball Club, Griffith Stadium, 1924." National Photo Company Collection glass negative, Library of Congress. View full size.
"Baltimore Fire, 1904. Buildings on Baltimore Street dynamited to stop the flames." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
New York, April 1917. "Recruiting address -- 23rd & Broadway (Flatiron Building)." George Grantham Bain Collection glass negative. View full size.
Washington, D.C. "Oldsmobile Sales Co. interior, 1919 or 1920." National Photo Company Collection glass negative, Library of Congress. View full size.
Washington, D.C., circa 1920. "Affleck's Drug Store." Hurry over now for the big closeout! National Photo Co. Collection, Library of Congress. View full size.
June 30, 1925. "National American Ballet." National Photo Company Collection glass negative, Library of Congress. View full size.
August 1862. "Culpeper Court House, Virginia. Railroad depot." Photographs from the main Eastern theater of war, Bull Run, second Battle of Bull Run. Wet plate negative, half of stereo pair, by Timothy O'Sullivan. View full size.