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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]
October 1941. "Syracuse ice cream vendor." Continuing the story begun here. Medium-format nitrate negative by John Collier. View full size.
July 1936. "Harvesting oats. Clayton, Indiana, south of Indianapolis." Medium-format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange. View full size.
On just learning of the passing of Jackie Guthrie, Arlo's wife, I had to wonder where does the time go and how fast it goes there. Was it that long ago I took pictures of these kids getting married? View full size.
October 1941. "Syracuse ice cream vendor." A mobile Cole Cream dispenser. Medium-format nitrate negative by John Collier. View full size.
November 15, 1909. Bridgeton, New Jersey. "Cumberland Glass Works. Night shift going to work." Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size.
Circa 1901. "Paterson, New Jersey, from Reservoir Park." Garden spot of the Garden State. 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. View full size.
Circa 1903. "Sailing on the beach at Ormond, Florida." An interesting looking character at the controls. 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Publishing. View full size.
Medford, Massachusetts, Fall 1978. Misty; wet; the smell of wet leaves and the quiet. From a Kodachrome slide I took with a Nikon FM camera. View full size.
Circa 1905. "On the beach at Coney Island." The bathing-costumes this season are even skimpier than last year's. 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size.
"Chester W. Chapin, New York Yacht Club steamer, America's Cup races, 1901." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
The driveway of our house on Griffing Drive in Port Arthur, Texas in 1961. I'm in the blue shirt and my brother Jeffrey is wearing shorts and a toy gun holster. The two other boys were obviously brothers, but I can't remember their names.
I can still remember this day, though; how much fun we had with those wiggling puppies. I can't remember why the broken block and brick are there, though!
We nicknamed the dark-brown puppy Columbus because he was always venturing as far as he could before his mom would catch him and bring him back to the puppy box she had in the garage.
Note the old King-Size Coca-Cola carton in the background!
Syracuse, New York, circa 1905. "New York Central R.R. depot." Locomotive sharing the spotlight with an electric brougham. View full size.
Marquette, Michigan, circa 1913. "Washington Street, showing opera house." Now playing at the picture show: "Message From Mars" and "Flaming Arrrow." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Circa 1905. "Port Huron, Michigan -- Black River." An array of interesting signage in this view. 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. View full size.
Cleveland circa 1908. "Central Furnace Works." Foundry of the American Steel & Wire Co. on the Cuyahoga River. 8x10 glass negative. View full size.