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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.
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July 1942. "Decatur, Alabama. War production center (Ingalls Shipbuilding Co.) on the Tennessee River." Acetate negative by Jack Delano, Office of War Information. View full size.
The Chicago River circa 1907. "Canada Atlantic Transit freighter Arthur Orr passing State Street Bridge." 8x10 inch glass negative by Hans Behm, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Philadelphia circa 1907. "Gimbel Brothers store, Market and Ninth streets." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Philadelphia circa 1907. "Broad Street north from Locust." With views of the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, Land Title Trust Building and City Hall. 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size.
Circa 1902. "Entrance, Sanitarium Park, Alma, Michigan." Baseball boys, a nursemaid, Mr. F. Krueger, an electric (?) runabout! 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Photographic Co. View full size.
Detroit, Michigan, circa 1907. "Woodward Avenue at Witherell Street, looking south." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
October 24, 1902. "H.S. Harkness in his Mercedes-Simplex, winning five-miles event in 6:1 3-5, Grosse Pointe track, Detroit." 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Photographic Co. View full size.
August 9, 1942. "Interlochen, Michigan. National music camp where 300 or more young musicians study symphonic music for eight weeks each summer. Reading the funny papers on Sunday morning." Medium format acetate negative by Arthur S. Siegel. View full size.
July 1942. "Dunklin County, Missouri. Children in a consolidated rural school." Medium format acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Office of War Information. View full size.
July 1942. "Hayti, Missouri. Cotton Carnival. Picnic." Brought to you by Wonder Bread. Medium format acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Office of War Information. View full size.
July 1942. "Hayti, Missouri. Cotton Carnival picnic. Boy eating." Medium format acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Office of War Information. View full size.
July 1942. "Hayti, Missouri. Breaking a wishbone at the Cotton Carnival picnic." Acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Office of War Information. View full size.
July 1942. "U.S. Rural Electrification Services. Miscellaneous scenes in Dunklin County, Missouri. Kennett, seat of Dunklin County, at election time. Courthouse square." Acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Office of War Information. View full size.
July 1942. "Dunklin County, Missouri. Daughters of a U.S. Rural Electrification Administration (REA) cooperative member using electric appliances in their farm kitchen." Acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Office of War Information. View full size.
July 1942. "Hayti, Missouri. U.S. Rural Electrification Administration (REA) lineman examining transformers of a substation." Acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the OWI. View full size.