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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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February 1942. Tulare County, California. "FSA farm workers' camp. Girls in the recreation room." Acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
November 1940. Ledyard, Connecticut. "Two of the Crouch family boys coming home for the Thanksgiving Day dinner after a morning of hunting in the woods." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
February 1942. Woodville, California. "FSA farm workers' community. Demonstration of 'pressure spot' to stop arterial bleeding at the first aid class." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
February 1942. Woodville, Calif. "FSA farm workers' community. Son of agricultural worker at their garden house." Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
New York circa 1910. "View down Wall Street to Trinity Church." Its steeple sharing the Lower Manhattan skyline with the obelisk-topped "Chimney Building" at 1 Wall Street. 6x8 inch dry plate glass negative by Robert L. Bracklow. View full size.
February 1942. "Tulare County, California. FSA farm workers' camp. At the movies." Not to be outdone by our previous FSA photo, we have two birders here, and three birds! Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
New York, 1888. "Bandits' roost, 59½ Mulberry Street (Mulberry Bend)." Gelatin silver print from a glass negative by the social reformer Jacob Riis (1849-1914). View full size.
February 1942. Woodville, Calif. "FSA farm workers' community. First aid class." Today's lesson: finger splints! Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
February 1942. "Porterville, California. Vegetable stand in grocery store." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
January 1942. Woodville, California. "FSA farm workers' community. Games are played in the recreation room in the community building." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
February 1942. Woodville, Calif. "FSA farm workers' community. Agricultural worker and his family in their garden house." Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Admin. View full size.
February 1942. Woodville, California. "FSA farm workers' community. Boys in recreation room." Acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
New York circa 1890s. "Street view, 21-23 Pearl Street." Glass negative by Robert L. Bracklow (1849-1919), a member of the Society of Amateur Photographers of New York. View full size.
New York circa 1912. "National City Bank, Wall Street at William Street." Also the Atlantic Building, and a sliver of U.S. Trust. Detroit Publishing Company glass negative. View full size.
West Point, New York, circa 1910. "The Academic Building -- cadets returning from mess." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.