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Most of the photos on this site were extracted from reference images (high-resolution tiffs, 20 to 200 megabytes in size) from the Library of Congress research archive. (To query the database click here.) Many were digitized by LOC contractors using a Sinar studio back. They are adjusted by your webmaster for contrast and color in Photoshop before being downsized and turned into the jpegs you see here.

 
 
 
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  • No Springs: 1942

    A. Palmer

    Alfred T. Palmer (1906-1993). Images from the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.

    134 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sun, 11/20/2011 - 6:20pm

  • Commissary Clerks: 1863

    Alexander Gardner

    Alexander Gardner (1821-1882), Civil War photographer. Images from the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.

    12 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Fri, 08/26/2011 - 7:17pm

  • We (Heart) Marilyn: 1953

    Alfred Eisenstaedt

    Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898-1995). Images from the Time-Life archive.

    4 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Mon, 09/12/2011 - 2:41pm

  • Utah Copper Co.: 1942

    Andreas Feininger

    Andreas Feininger (1906-1999). Images from the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.

    8 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Fri, 09/10/2010 - 11:20pm

  • Every Minute Counts: 1942

    Ann Rosener

    Ann Rosener. Images from the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.

    19 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 09/06/2011 - 2:39pm

  • Leaving Manzanar: 1943

    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 - 1:15am

  • The Bun Also Rises: 1939

    Arthur Rothstein

    Arthur Rothstein (1915-1985). Images from the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.

    130 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Thu, 02/09/2012 - 4:35am

  • Hell Gate: 1942

    Arthur Siegel

    Arthur Siegel, photographer for the Office of War Information. Images from the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.

    12 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 09/13/2011 - 10:10pm

  • Circleville: 1938

    Ben Shahn

    Ben Shahn (1898-1969), Lithuanian-born artist and photographer. Images from the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.

    83 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Thu, 05/19/2011 - 6:01pm

  • Rear Window: 1935

    Carl Mydans

    Carl Mydans (1907-2004). Images from the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.

    32 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sun, 11/27/2011 - 3:19pm

  • Library of Congress: 2007

    Carol M. Highsmith

    1 photo in this gallery

    Last updated: Sat, 07/31/2010 - 12:54pm

  • Dolled Up: 1939

    David Myers

    3 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Fri, 09/09/2011 - 12:19pm

  • Sleeps With the Fishes: 1940

    Dick Sheldon

    1 photo in this gallery

    Last updated: Sun, 08/14/2011 - 10:09pm

  • Dazey Boy: 1939

    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.

    127 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sat, 11/27/2010 - 9:59am

  • City Hall: 1906

    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 every year by Detroit Publishing in the early years of the 20th century, made using its 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.

    1447 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Thu, 02/09/2012 - 8:16pm

  • A Little Game: 1897

    E.H. Hart

    25 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Fri, 11/11/2011 - 7:40pm

  • Si Wa Wata Wa: 1903

    Edward Curtis

    4 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sun, 09/11/2011 - 10:18pm

  • On Walden Pond: 1937

    Edwin Locke

    2 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sat, 06/14/2008 - 12:31pm

  • Just the Three of Us: 1940

    Edwin Rosskam

    22 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sun, 02/05/2012 - 3:24pm

  • Playtime: 1943

    Esther Bubley

    54 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 09/13/2011 - 3:17pm

  • David Leung: 1911

    F. Holland Day

    2 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 09/13/2011 - 8:25pm

  • Evergreen: 1938

    F.B. Johnston

    Photographs of the pioneering feminist Frances Benjamin Johnston, commissioned by the Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South.

    73 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Mon, 01/16/2012 - 5:07pm

  • The Reaper

    F.W. Guerin

    14 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Wed, 12/09/2009 - 11:31am

  • Memorial Day: 1942

    Fenno Jacobs

    7 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sun, 07/05/2009 - 4:00am

  • Bloomer Girl: 1918

    G.G. Bain

    Photos taken mostly in and around New York City by newsphoto pioneer George Grantham Bain's Bain News Service.

    523 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Fri, 02/10/2012 - 6:22am

  • Charleston: 1865

    Geo. Barnard

    25 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Fri, 09/23/2011 - 2:19pm

  • Ruffles and Flourishes: 1906

    Gertrude Kasebier

    18 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Wed, 01/18/2012 - 12:24pm

  • A Hand Up: 1943

    Gordon Parks

    9 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 06/30/2009 - 11:41am

  • Seagram: 1957

    Gottscho-Schleisner

    33 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Fri, 06/17/2011 - 7:32pm

  • Wonder Women: 1942

    H. Hollem

    41 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Mon, 01/23/2012 - 1:54am

  • Hotel Tuller: 1980s

    HABS

    Historic American Buildings Survey

    11 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Wed, 09/14/2011 - 6:01pm

  • Game Day: 1911

    Harris + Ewing

    Black-and-white photographs imaged directly from large-format glass negatives made by the prominent Washington, D.C., photo studio founded in 1905 by George Harris and Martha Ewing. Glass plates currently residing in the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Collection.

    584 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sun, 02/05/2012 - 4:11pm

  • Liberty Ships: 1941

    Howard Liberman

    3 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Wed, 12/12/2007 - 11:33am

  • Exchange Court: 1920

    Irving Underhill

    8 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Thu, 09/08/2011 - 1:23pm

  • One Last Dance: 1941

    J. Collier

    37 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 09/13/2011 - 8:20pm

  • Winter Roundhouse: 1942

    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.

    206 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Fri, 01/13/2012 - 11:15am

  • Harpers Ferry: 1865

    James Gardner

    3 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 05/20/2008 - 12:37am

  • Coffee Break: 1862

    James Gibson

    7 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sat, 08/14/2010 - 1:46am

  • Deadwood Stamp Mill: 1888

    John Grabill

    1 photo in this gallery

    Last updated: Wed, 12/12/2007 - 11:17am

  • A Late Start: 1940

    John Vachon

    157 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Thu, 02/02/2012 - 6:33pm

  • Pete Seeger: 1944

    Joseph Horne

    9 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sun, 09/11/2011 - 12:49pm

  • Julius Shulman: 1910-2009

    Julius Shulman

    6 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 09/13/2011 - 1:12pm

  • Breaker Boys: 1911

    Lewis Hine

    Photos taken by Lewis Wickes Hine for the National Child Labor Commission and its report to Congress.

    425 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sat, 02/04/2012 - 4:27pm

  • We (Heart) Marilyn: 1953

    LIFE

    Life magazine photo archive.

    28 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Mon, 09/12/2011 - 2:41pm

  • Modern Farmwoman: 1940

    Louise Rosskam

    9 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 01/17/2012 - 9:05pm

  • Red, White and Blue: 1956

    Margaret Bourke-White

    5 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Fri, 11/28/2008 - 6:53pm

  • Hazard Bridge: 1940

    Marion Post Wolcott

    51 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Mon, 05/17/2010 - 1:09pm

  • Meat Market: 1943

    Marjory Collins

    7 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Wed, 01/18/2012 - 11:04am

  • Gettysburg: 1863

    Mathew Brady

    10 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Fri, 08/28/2009 - 4:40pm

  • Holey Water: 1940

    Matson

    28 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 05/24/2011 - 1:35am

  • International Newsreel: 1924

    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.

    1508 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Thu, 02/09/2012 - 2:52pm

  • Harvard Eddie: 1911

    Paul Thompson

    5 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Fri, 09/02/2011 - 3:24pm

  • Super Bowl: 1944

    Richard Boyer

    1 photo in this gallery

    Last updated: Fri, 09/09/2011 - 1:34pm

  • Be It Ever So Humble: 1938

    Russell Lee

    219 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Thu, 02/09/2012 - 1:24pm

  • Sam Cooley: 1865

    Sam Cooley

    11 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Mon, 09/06/2010 - 9:26pm

  • Shenandoah: 1938

    Sheldon Dick

    1 photo in this gallery

    Last updated: Wed, 01/09/2008 - 8:03pm

  • Smoking: 1949

    Stanley Kubrick

    1 photo in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 09/06/2011 - 2:22pm

  • Mayfair Restaurant: 1948

    Theodor Horydczak

    12 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sat, 09/24/2011 - 2:28am

  • Feed Shed: 1936

    Theodor Jung

    13 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sun, 12/04/2011 - 12:17pm

  • Requiem Aeternam: 1865

    Thomas Roche

    5 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sun, 09/11/2011 - 12:51pm

  • Hanged: 1864

    Timothy O'Sullivan

    16 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sat, 06/18/2011 - 3:44pm

  • Rum Point: 1957

    Toni Frissell

    10 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Fri, 09/09/2011 - 7:46pm

  • Cherokee Parts: 1936

    Walker Evans

    46 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sat, 01/28/2012 - 1:26pm

  • Old-School Barbecue: Planked Shad

    William Cruikshank

    4 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Wed, 12/12/2007 - 11:35am

  • Cigarette Lighter: 1964

    William Gedney

    17 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Wed, 09/14/2011 - 7:22pm

  • To the Other Side: 1865

    William Morris Smith

    2 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Mon, 01/28/2008 - 10:27am

  • Bull Street: 1901

    Wm. H. Jackson

    59 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sun, 01/29/2012 - 2:02pm

  • Ride Like the Wind: 1902

    Wright Brothers

    10 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sat, 06/14/2008 - 3:24pm

 
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