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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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November 1941. "Trinkets in migrant agricultural worker's automobile. Wilder, Idaho." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
November 1941. "Migrant agricultural worker in his automobile. Wilder, Idaho." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
December 1941. "Threshing machine. Canyon County, Idaho. Black Canyon reclamation project in a dry land area, administered by U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Reclamation." Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
January 1941. "At one of the rolling machines in the Washington Tinplate Company. Washington Pennsylvania." Acetate negative by Jack Delano. View full size.
January 1941. "Interior of abandoned Howard Stove Works in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania." Acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
January 1941. "Main street in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, on a Saturday afternoon." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
December 1941. Shasta County, California. "Dump truck which carries materials for use in construction of Shasta Dam. This truck uses butane instead of gasoline because of the extra power butane gives." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee. View full size.
January 1941. "Busload of steelworkers going home. Aliquippa, Pennsylvania." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
January 1941. "Inside the abandoned Howard Stove Works, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania." Medium format negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
November 1941. "Mr. and Mrs. Lee Wagoner Wagner, who farm on the Black Canyon Project. Canyon County, Idaho." Photo by Russell Lee, Farm Security Administration. View full size.
January 1941. "Punch press at the Washington Tinplate Works. Washington, Pennsylvania." Acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
May 1940. "Street in Louisville, Kentucky." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
May 1940. "Cotton carnival. Memphis, Tennessee." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
October 1958. "High school student Bill Kolb of White Plains, New York, teenage driver who works part-time as clerk in neighborhood market." 35mm acetate negative by Charlotte Brooks for the Look magazine assignment "Teenage Driving." View full size.
May 1955. "Los Angeles Policewoman of the Year Fransis Sumner questioning suspected drug user. Photographs show Officer Sumner working and training; questioning people; with children and infants; at jail with women prisoners; at firing range with other policewomen; in hand-to-hand combat class; in judo class; on obstacle course. Also photographs of Sumner receiving award; with husband at restaurant; at home knitting and cooking." 35mm negative by Earl Theisen from the Look magazine assignment "Police Woman." View full size.