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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]
October 1942. Final assembly for a B-25 bomber at North American Aviation, Inglewood, Calif. View full size. Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer.
October 1942. Cowling and control rods are added to motors for B-25 bombers as they move down the assembly line at North American Aviation, Inglewood, Calif. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer.
February 1943. Readying a "Vengeance" dive bomber for landing gear installation at Consolidated-Vultee, Nashville. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer.
Working on Catalina flying boat at the Corpus Christi Naval Air Base. August 1942. View full size. 35mm Kodachrome transparency by Howard Hollem.
Mating operation on a C-87 transport plane just before it comes to the pre- assembly line at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas. October 1942. View full size. Kodachrome transparency by Howard Hollem.
Fitting the tail of a C-87 transport plane to the wing center section in the fuselage mating fixture at the Consolidated Aircraft plant, Fort Worth, Texas. October 1942. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Howard Hollem.
Wing center section of a Liberator bomber at the Consolidated Aircraft plant. October 1942. View full size. Kodachrome transparency by Howard Hollem.
Medical classroom, American University of Beirut, Lebanon. Circa 1930s. View full size. (Warning - Not for the squeamish: See what's inside.)
New York, December 1924. "Greenwich Village Follies Cooking Class." George Grantham Bain Collection. View full size.
Cooking Class for Men at the Pratt Institute with Miss Hanks and Miss Kierstead, circa 1917. View full size. George Grantham Bain Collection.
Electricity Class at St. George's Evening Trade School, New York, circa 1910. View full size. George Grantham Bain Collection.
P-51 Mustangs of the 332nd Fighter Group (Tuskegee Airmen). Ramitelli, Italy, March 1945. View full size. Photograph by Toni Frissell.
Old Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., where Abraham Lincoln was shot in 1865. View full size. Wet collodion glass plate. Photograph by Mathew Brady.
Federal soldiers killed July 1, 1863, near the McPherson woods. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. View full size. Wet collodion glass plate, half of stereograph pair. Photograph by Timothy H. O'Sullivan.