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A. Palmer
Alfred T. Palmer (1906-1993). Images from the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.
143 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Fri, 04/19/2013 - 7:16pm
A. Rothstein
Arthur Rothstein (1915-1985). This American photographer covered everything from the Dust Bowl for the Farm Security Administration to news stories for Look magazine. Arthur Rothstein grew up in the Bronx and attended Columbia University where he helped found the University Camera Club. Arthur Rothstein later worked the Columbia University School of Journalism.
180 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Mon, 05/20/2013 - 5:46pm
Alexander Gardner
Alexander Gardner (1821-1882), Civil War photographer. Images from the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.
13 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 09/25/2012 - 6:15pm
Alfred Eisenstaedt
Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898-1995). Images from the Time-Life archive.
4 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Mon, 09/12/2011 - 3:41pm
Andreas Feininger
Andreas Feininger (1906-1999). Images from the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.
8 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Thu, 08/30/2012 - 6:47pm
Ann Rosener
Ann Rosener. Images from the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.
20 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 04/16/2013 - 5:59pm
Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams (1902-1984). Images from the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.
14 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 10/07/2008 - 2:15am
Arthur Siegel
Arthur Siegel, photographer for the Office of War Information. Images from the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.
29 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 05/21/2013 - 7:30pm
Ben Shahn
Ben Shahn (1898-1969), Lithuanian-born artist and photographer. Images from the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.
84 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Wed, 05/23/2012 - 12:35pm
Carl Mydans
Carl Mydans (1907-2004). Images from the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.
39 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Wed, 07/25/2012 - 12:34pm
Carol M. Highsmith
1 photo in this gallery
Last updated: Sat, 07/31/2010 - 1:54pm
David Myers
6 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 04/23/2013 - 12:18pm
Dick Sheldon
1 photo in this gallery
Last updated: Sun, 08/14/2011 - 11:09pm
Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange (1895-1965). This socially conscious documentarian of Dust Bowl migrants in the 1930s took one of the most famous photographs of the Depression era, Migrant Mother. Dorothea Lange was born on May 26, 1895 in Hoboken, New Jersey and learned photography at Columbia University in New York. During the Great Depression Dorothea Lange worked for the Farm Security Administration documenting the plight of the unemployed, homeless and migrant laborers. Dorothea Lange died on October 11, 1965.
158 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sat, 04/20/2013 - 10:56am
DPC
Glass negatives from the Detroit Photographic / Detroit Publishing collection at the Library of Congress. These glass plates were the starting point for the millions of colored postcards sold by Detroit Publishing in the early years of the 20th century. The images were made using Detroit Publishing's patented Photochrom process.
In 1939, a year before his death, Detroit Publishing partner William Henry Jackson, whose western plates formed the basis of the company's holdings in its early days, gave the negatives and prints to the Edison Institute (now known as the Henry Ford Museum) in Dearborn, Michigan. In 1949, the Edison Institute gave all of the negatives and many duplicate photographs to the Colorado Historical Society. The Colorado Historical Society transferred most of the negatives and prints for sites east of the Mississippi to the Library of Congress later that year.
1865 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 05/21/2013 - 4:57pm
E.H. Hart
36 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Fri, 03/22/2013 - 3:07pm
Edward Curtis
4 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sun, 09/11/2011 - 11:18pm
Edwin Locke
4 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Thu, 04/11/2013 - 10:55am
Edwin Rosskam
29 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Fri, 05/17/2013 - 2:59pm
Esther Bubley
57 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Mon, 04/29/2013 - 11:59am
F. Holland Day
2 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 09/13/2011 - 9:25pm
F.B. Johnston
Photographs of the pioneering feminist Frances Benjamin Johnston, commissioned by the Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South.
88 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sat, 04/13/2013 - 2:09pm
Fenno Jacobs
7 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Wed, 09/05/2012 - 6:12pm
Fitz W. Guerin
Fitz W. Guerin (1846 -1903). Images from the Library of Congress
14 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Wed, 12/09/2009 - 12:31pm
G.G. Bain
Photos taken mostly in and around New York City by newsphoto pioneer George Grantham Bain's Bain News Service.
597 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Thu, 05/09/2013 - 12:40am
Geo. Barnard
26 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sat, 07/21/2012 - 11:17pm
Gertrude Kasebier
18 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Thu, 08/09/2012 - 12:55am
Gordon Parks
26 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sat, 05/04/2013 - 11:50am
Gottscho-Schleisner
74 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Wed, 05/08/2013 - 5:17pm
H. Hollem
47 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Fri, 02/22/2013 - 10:03pm
HABS
Historic American Buildings Survey
12 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Wed, 04/11/2012 - 5:35pm
Harris + Ewing
Harris & Ewing black-and-white photographs imaged directly from large-format glass negatives. The photographs were made by the prominent Washington, D.C., photo studio founded in 1905 by George Harris and Martha Ewing. Harris & Ewing glass plates currently residing in the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Collection.
696 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Mon, 05/20/2013 - 12:15pm
Howard Liberman
3 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Wed, 09/05/2012 - 4:57pm
Irving Underhill
7 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Fri, 08/10/2012 - 5:47pm
J. Collier
72 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Mon, 03/11/2013 - 5:47am
Jack Delano
1914-1997. Farm Security Administration photographer noted for his work in Puerto Rico. Here at Shorpy, his large-format Kodachromes of trains and railroads are among the most popular posts.
256 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sun, 05/19/2013 - 9:40pm
James Gardner
3 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 05/20/2008 - 1:37am
James Gibson
8 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Fri, 06/15/2012 - 3:08am
John Grabill
1 photo in this gallery
Last updated: Wed, 12/12/2007 - 12:17pm
John Vachon
208 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Thu, 05/16/2013 - 5:03pm
Joseph Horne
9 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sun, 09/11/2011 - 1:49pm
Julius Shulman
6 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 09/13/2011 - 2:12pm
Lewis Hine
Photos taken by Lewis Wickes Hine for the National Child Labor Commission and its report to Congress.
480 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sun, 05/05/2013 - 9:57am
LIFE
Life magazine photo archive.
28 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Mon, 09/12/2011 - 3:41pm
LOOK
Photos taken by various photographers for Look magazine in the 1950s.
22 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 05/21/2013 - 12:48pm
Louise Rosskam
12 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 12/11/2012 - 1:27pm
Margaret Bourke-White
5 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Fri, 11/28/2008 - 7:53pm
Marion Post Wolcott
61 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sun, 02/24/2013 - 4:27pm
Marjory Collins
42 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 05/21/2013 - 1:02pm
Martha Roberts
Photographs by Martha McMillan Roberts.
1 photo in this gallery
Last updated: Fri, 07/27/2012 - 9:10pm
Mathew Brady
11 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sun, 11/25/2012 - 5:16pm
Matson
28 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 05/24/2011 - 2:35am
Natl Photo
Photographs taken in and near Washington, D.C., by the National Photo Co., whose archive of thousands of negatives (mostly glass plates) and prints was donated by proprietor Herbert E. French to the Library of Congress in 1947.
1691 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Thu, 05/02/2013 - 5:11pm
Paul Thompson
5 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sun, 08/12/2012 - 5:27pm
Phillip Harrington
Photos of a young Elvis Presley.
7 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sun, 05/12/2013 - 12:51pm
Ralph Amdursky
Photos for the U.S. Office of War Information of the Babcocks, a "typical war worker's family" living in Rochester, New York.
7 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Fri, 03/01/2013 - 3:13pm
Richard Boyer
1 photo in this gallery
Last updated: Fri, 09/09/2011 - 2:34pm
Russell Lee
288 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 05/21/2013 - 11:49am
Sam Cooley
11 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Mon, 09/06/2010 - 10:26pm
Sheldon Dick
1 photo in this gallery
Last updated: Wed, 01/09/2008 - 9:03pm
Stanley Kubrick
4 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Mon, 05/20/2013 - 2:43pm
Theodor Horydczak
16 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sat, 05/18/2013 - 9:29pm
Theodor Jung
13 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sun, 12/04/2011 - 1:17pm
Thomas Roche
5 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sun, 09/11/2011 - 1:51pm
Timothy O'Sullivan
22 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 04/30/2013 - 12:59pm
Toni Frissell
13 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Mon, 05/13/2013 - 11:51am
Walker Evans
Walker Evans (1903-1975) is best know for his photography for the Farm Security Administration. Walker Evans was born on November 3, 1903 in St. Louis, Missouri, and began taking photographs in 1928. During the Great Depression Walker Evans worked for the FSA documenting the hardships and poverty of the era, focusing on the rural south. Walker Evans died April 10, 1975.
48 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Wed, 11/07/2012 - 7:05pm
William Cruikshank
4 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sun, 07/29/2012 - 9:42pm
William Gedney
Photographs from Duke University's William Gale Gedney (1932-1989) Photographs and Writings Collection.
19 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Fri, 07/20/2012 - 11:05pm
William Morris Smith
2 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Thu, 08/09/2012 - 7:31pm
Wm. H. Jackson
72 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sun, 04/28/2013 - 2:41pm
Wright Brothers
10 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sat, 06/14/2008 - 4:24pm
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