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:
February 12, 1909. "James Crowley, 2nd in Brooklyn Marathon." View full size. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress.
August 2, 1923. Washington, D.C. "Max Schwartz, winner of pie eating contest, Jefferson school." View full size. National Photo Company glass negative.
September 1939. "Hamburger stand with old cattle brands. Dumas, Texas." 35mm negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
August 12, 1924. "International Boys Leagues. Thomas W. Miles and Simon Zebrock of Los Angeles at White House." View full size. National Photo Co.
November 1909. Woodbury, New Jersey. "Woodbury Bottle Works. Noon hour. All are workers." View full size. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine.
May 1939. "Statue to the watermelon. Weatherford, Texas, watermelon center." View full size. 35mm negative by Russell Lee, Farm Security Administration.
October 1938. Crowley, Louisiana. "Crowd of people waiting for Cajun band contest to begin at the National Rice Festival." View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration.
May 1943. "Mexican worker recruited and brought to the Arkansas Valley, Colorado, Nebraska and Minnesota by the Farm Security Administration to harvest sugar beets under contract with the Inter-mountain Agricultural Improvement Association." View full size. Office of War Information.