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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]
New York circa 1900. "Snow in Central Park." Mush, Rover! Mush! 8x10 inch glass plate by "Byron" for the Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
August 30, 1944. "Felix Fuld Houses. Newark Housing Authority, 57 Sussex Avenue, Newark, New Jersey." Gottscho-Schleisner photo. View full size.
February 1936. Washington, D.C. "Woman in snow." One capital commuter who seems unfazed by the white stuff. Harris & Ewing glass negative. View full size.
With the help of our commenters, we've identified this plush barouche as a 1926 Cadillac Model 314 Four-Passenger Phaeton.
San Francisco circa 1923. "Touring car, top view." Who'll be first to put a name to this swank charabanc? 6½ x 8½ glass negative, Wyland Stanley. View full size.
Washington, D.C., circa 1922. "Miss Tomlin's School, interior." Our third visit to the premises of this educational establishment, run by Miss Queenie Ada-Maye Tomlin. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
Circa 1900. "St. Clair River tunnel. Port Huron, Michigan." Time to move the camera! 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. View full size.
"Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco, 1939. International Harvester watering truck." The latest entry in the Shorpy Catalogue of Discontinued Conveyances. 8x10 inch film negative. View full size.
August 1942. "Bike rack in Idaho Falls, Idaho." Brought to you by 7up. Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Office of War Information. View full size.
July 1937. "Parking lot in Washington, D.C." Medium-format negative by Russell Lee for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.
Detroit circa 1900. "Grosse Ile duck farm -- feeding the ducklings." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
San Francisco circa 1930. "Fageol dump truck at construction site." Our second truck with a Hemlock telephone exchange. 8x10 film negative. View full size.
San Francisco in 1930. "Oldsmobile sedan on Alemany Boulevard." On the sunny side of the street. 5x7 glass negative by Christopher Helin. View full size.
June 1943. "Arlington, Virginia. Girls in two of the long line of showers at Idaho Hall, Arlington Farms, suburban Washington residence for women who work in the U.S. government for the duration of the war." Medium format negative by Esther Bubley for the Office of War Information. View full size.
June 1942. "John Sonesen, propeller grinder at a Hartford, Connecticut, plant, inspects a blade for a vertical balance during the operation of grinding it to correct contours in a template. This Hamilton blade will be assembled in a pitch-controlling Hydra-Matic mechanism to help power one of our new warplanes." Photo by Andreas Feininger for the Office of War Information. View full size.
"Our new car in snow -- March 23, 1952." Hubert and Grace's green DeSoto stars in this latest episode of Minnesota Kodachromes. View full size.