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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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San Francisco, 1926. "Paige sedan (Series 2) at Pioneer Park, Telegraph Hill." 5x7 glass negative by Christopher Helin. View full size.
Circa 1905. "Mount Tom Mountain House, Massachusetts." Completed in 1901, Mountain House (reached via the Mount Tom Railroad, seen here, here and here) replaced the 1897 summit house after it had burned in 1900; in 1929, Mountain House met the same fiery fate. 8x10 glass negative. View full size.
Ecorse, Michigan, circa 1906. "Great Lakes Engineering Works." Our title comes from the idiosyncratically graffitoed flatcar. Panorama made from two 8x10 inch glass negatives. Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Circa 1901. "Family cow -- The Firs, New Baltimore, Michigan." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
April 1954. "Flamingo Hotel, Las Vegas." Medium format negative for the Look magazine assignment "What Price Gambling in Nevada?" View full size.
Ray Brook, New York, circa 1905. "Saranac Lake, state tuberculosis sanatorium, Adirondack Mountains." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative. View full size.
St. Paul, Minnesota, circa 1910. "Robert Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, circa 1907. "Thomas Sheafe house, Market and Deer streets." 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Circa 1900. "Royal Victoria Hotel, Nassau, West Indies." 8x10 inch glass negative by William Henry Jackson, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
Circa 1905. "Main Street -- Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
January 7, 1925. Washington, D.C. "Scientists of Naval Observatory with special camera to photograph eclipse of sun." 5x7 glass negative. View full size.
January 24, 1925. "President & Mrs. Coolidge viewing eclipse of sun at White House." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
March 1952. "Marlene Dietrich makes her stage debut in Chicago." Color transparency by Phillip Harrington for Look magazine. View full size.
Baltimore circa 1905. "Oyster luggers at the docks." Panorama made from two 8x10 inch glass negatives. Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
Fredericksburg, Virginia, circa 1928. "Brick house, Princess Anne Street." 8x10 inch acetate negative by Frances Benjamin Johnston. View full size.