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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]
Boston circa 1905. "Fireboat, Engine No. 44." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
Circa 1905. "Subway entrance and exit kiosks, East 23rd Street, New York City." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Circa 1905. "Cemetery Avenue, Springfield, Mass." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Rochester, New York, circa 1904. "East Main Street at South Avenue and St. Paul Boulevard." A sartorial crossroads anchored by Garson's Clothiers. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
Columbus, Georgia, circa 1958. "Junior League luncheon." Starring the Centerpiece That Ate Columbus. 4x5 inch acetate negative. View full size.
1904. "Fifth Avenue, Pittsburg, Pa." Address of the Philadelphia Dental Rooms, on what seems to have been Pittsburgh's go-to street for Painless Dentistry. Looming over it all is the recently completed Farmers Bank building. View full size.
Columbus, Georgia, circa 1952. "Churches -- St. Luke Methodist." 4x5 inch acetate negative from the Shorpy News Photo Archive. View full size.
Circa 1950. "Musketeers party." Our second look at the activities of this Columbus, Georgia, social club, where the bar tricks include juggling ukulele, cigar, bourbon bottle and girl. 4x5 acetate negative from the News Photo Archive. View full size.
Washington, D.C., circa 1935. "Potomac Electric Power Co. service station building, 10th Street and Florida Avenue. Linemen's truck." 8x10 inch acetate negative by Theodor Horydczak. View full size.
July 1939. "Tent home of family living in community camp. Oklahoma City." Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
July 1939. Oklahoma City. "Children taking bath in their home in May Avenue community camp." Medium format negative by Russell Lee. View full size.
July 1939. "Resident of May Avenue camp, Oklahoma City, taking piece of glass out of boy's foot." Medium format negative by Russell Lee. View full size.
July 1939. "Woman living in camp near May Avenue, Oklahoma City. Her husband has been denied work relief. He is a world war veteran." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
July 1939. Oklahoma City. "Shacks, tents, other makeshift shelter in May Avenue camp, which is partially under bridge and adjacent to city dump and hog wallow. Photographs show squalor, filth and vermin in which poverty-stricken inhabitants dwell. Water supplied by shallow wells and water peddler. Piles of rubbish and debris in which children and adults have injured feet. Privies. Families eating food from vegetable dumps, packinghouses and discarded from hospital. Children clothed in gunny sacks. Malnourished babies. Sick people. Cooking, washing, ironing, patching. Improvised chicken coop. Corn patch." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
July 1939. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. "Children of May Avenue camp family in small shack used as sleeping quarters. Poverty-stricken inhabitants here dwell in squalor, filth and vermin." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.