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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]
Washington, D.C., circa 1918. "Frazier, James C., Mrs., group" is all it says here. Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. View full size.
San Francisco, 1925. "Nash Advanced Six at Golden Gate Park." Which of you kids would like some candy? 5x7 glass negative by Christopher Helin. View full size.
March 8, 1913. Wyandotte, Michigan. "Steamers A.D. MacTier and F.P. Jones, sponsors." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative. View full size.
New York circa 1907. "Knickerbocker Hotel, Broadway & 42nd Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
June 17, 1912. "Stanford University varsity crew at Poughkeepsie, N.Y., boat house." Capt. Seward, second from left. 5x7 glass negative. View full size.
New York, December 1913. "Hook & Ladder Company No. 7, Third Avenue and 15th Street." 5x7 inch glass negative, Bain News Service. View full size.
Circa 1904. "Fiske House and beach, Old Orchard, Maine." Reduced to ashes along with 16 other hotels in the Great Fire of August 15, 1907. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
1903. "Plant of the Consolidated Naval Stores Company, Pensacola, Florida. Resin and turpentine." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative. View full size.
Circa 1910. "Morgan residence -- St. Clair Flats, Michigan." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
San Francisco, 1928. "DeSoto Six sedan." Perhaps doing some advance location scouting for Jimmy Stewart's Firedome coupe three decades hence. 5x7 glass negative by Christopher Helin. View full size.
Nov. 16, 1923. Washington, D.C. "Shura Cherkassky, father Isaac & mother Lydia." The Russian-born piano prodigy at the age of 14. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
Washington, D.C. "Tech High football, 1919." As soon as we're done with our homework, look out. 8x10 glass negative, National Photo Co. View full size.
Washington, D.C, 1919. "Police coffee." Continuing this caffeinated, steamy saga. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
Washington, D.C, 1919. "Police coffee." Backed by the Salvation Army's powerful message of hope and/or thrift. 8x10 glass negative. View full size.
June 7, 1944. "Maser Music showroom, Mission and Washburn streets, San Francisco." On display on D-Day Plus One, a selection of Wurlitzer jukeboxes and two Mills Panoram "Soundies" machines, a sort of early video jukebox that played 16mm film loops of musical acts for a dime. 8x10 inch acetate negative, late of the Wyland Stanley and Marilyn Blaisdell collections. View full size.