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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 1943. "New York, New York. Associated Transport Company trucking terminal on Washington Street. Loading goods on a southbound transport." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.
February 1943. Madison, Wisconsin. "Gordon Swanstrom and Morell Babcock of Burnett County, students in the farm short course at the University of Wisconsin." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.
October 21, 1914. Bronx, New York. A Cross, Austin, & Ireland Lumber Co. truck accident on the trolley tracks at East 138th Street and Southern (now Bruckner) Boulevard. 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size.
March 1943. "Verona, New Jersey. Sewing the edge of an American flag at the Annin Flag Company." Acetate negative by Marjory Collins for the Office of War Information. View full size.
February 1943. Albuquerque, New Mexico. "Photographs show the modern city and 'Old Town' Albuquerque." Now playing at the "Pueblo Deco" Kimo on Route 66: Hitchcock's "Shadow of a Doubt." Acetate negative by John Collier for the Office of War Information. View full size.
March 1943. "Baltimore, Maryland. Davidson Transfer Company trucking terminal. Checking the tires on truck tractors." Photo by John Vachon, Office of War Information. View full size.
Newburyport, Massachusetts, circa 1904. A graduating class of nurses outside the main entrance to the Anna Jaques Hospital. 6½ x 8½ inch glass negative. View full size.
March 1943. "Baltimore, Maryland. Davidson Transfer Company trucking terminal. Lubricating a truck tractor." Acetate negative by John Vachon, Office of War Information. View full size.
Detroit circa 1910. "Dime Savings Bank branch, Woodward Avenue at Milwaukee Avenue." In a sliver of a building also housing the offices of DR. MOODY and four fellow practitioners. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
October 1907. "New York, N.Y. -- Carnegie Hall, West 57th Street and Seventh Avenue." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Circa 1915. "Mount Adams incline, Cincinnati, Ohio." An alternate view of the scene last glimpsed here. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Vicksburg, Mississippi, circa 1910. "First National Bank building, Washington and Clay streets." This junior skyscraper was the tallest building in the state when it was completed in 1907. Shopworn 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
December 1942. "Chicago, Illinois. Locomotive over the ash pit at the roundhouse at a Chicago & North Western railyard." Photo by Jack Delano, Office of War Information. View full size.
December 1942. "Chicago, Illinois. Icing a refrigerator car in the freight house at a Chicago & North Western railyard." Photo by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.
October 1942. "Tulsa, Oklahoma. Loading rack at the Mid-Continent refinery, Tulsa station of the Great Lakes pipeline." Photo by John Vachon, Office of War Information. View full size.