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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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March 1943. "Amarillo, Texas. View over the city." The Firestone Tires garage on Tyler Street at 10th Avenue. Acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.
March 1943. "Amarillo, Texas. View over the city." The Fisk Building and South Polk Street. Acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.
March 1943. "Waynoka, Oklahoma. An Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe operator and telegrapher throwing one of the interlocking switches." Thirty years old and still playing with trains! Acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.
March 1943. "Shopton, near Fort Madison, Iowa. Locomotives in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway roundhouse. Note train control mechanism on truck wheel of the engine." Acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.
March 1943. "Topeka, Kansas. Part of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad car building shops." Acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.
March 1943. "Waynoka, Oklahoma. Oil and water derricks near the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad roundhouse." Photo by Jack Delano, Office of War Information. View full size.
March 1943. "Baltimore, Maryland. A yard jockey backing up a truck that has just come into the unloading platform at the Davidson truck terminal." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.
Lower Manhattan and the East River circa 1901. "Riverfront from the Brooklyn Bridge, New York." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
Savannah, Georgia, in 1915. "View of Bull Street from Broughton Street showing the National Bank of Savannah, Johnson Square, Savannah Bank Building and Hotel Savannah." 5x7 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
New York circa 1900. "Grand Central Station, E. 42nd Street and Vanderbilt Avenue." 8x10 inch glass negative by William Henry Jackson, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
Circa 1905. "Freighter Manda unloading ore, Cleveland, Ohio." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Savannah, Georgia, circa 1905. "Oglethorpe Avenue and Independent Presbyterian Church." A street last glimpsed here, from a slightly different perspective. 5x7 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
Savannah, Georgia, circa 1908. "Oglethorpe Avenue, Chatham Academy and Independent Presbyterian Church." 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Savannah, Georgia, circa 1908. "Bull Street and the Chatham Academy, looking south." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
June 17, 1938. Washington, D.C. "No more hot air in Congress. Two million cubic feet of clean, cool air is delivered to members of Congress each minute by a $3,500,000 air conditioning plant, part of which is shown above. The plant supplies the entire Capitol and the Senate and the new and old House Office Buildings." 4x5 glass negative by Harris & Ewing. View full size.