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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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June 30, 1925. "Madame Lubouska, National American Ballet." The Russian dancer Desiree Lubowska. National Photo glass negative. View full size.
Washington, D.C., circa 1920. "Washington Times. 1807 H Street N.W." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
June 28, 1923. Washington, D.C. "Girl in bathing suit." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
Washington, D.C., circa 1915. "Grief monument, Rock Creek cemetery." Augustus Saint-Gaudens's ambiguously enigmatic bronze memorializing Clover Adams, the society hostess whose suicide led to its commission by her husband, the writer Henry Adams. National Photo Co. Collection glass negative. View full size.
Washington, D.C., circa 1923. "Lucille Layton." Whose talents, to judge from her photographic oeuvre, seems to have been at least peripherally related to the piano. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
Washington, D.C., circa 1924. "Ford Motor Co. -- Hanlon Lincoln hearse." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
Takoma Park, Maryland, circa 1928. "Washington Sanitarium classroom." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
July 14, 1913. Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C. "Camp Goodwill baby hospital." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
Washington, D.C. "Surgery, 1922." From a series depicting pre- and postoperative procedures, as well as surgery itself, at an unnamed hospital. View full size.
Circa 1900. "Boody House, Toledo, Ohio." The Boody House hotel at St. Clair and Madison. Dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Circa 1895. "Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Washington, D.C., circa 1915. "H.E.F. group." National Photo proprietor Herbert E. French with his wife, parents and daughter Dorothy. View full size.
Washington, D.C., circa 1922. "Southwest corner, 17th and Eye streets Northwest." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
San Luis Potosi, Mexico, 1890s. "Tunnel 3, Tamasopo Canyon." Dry plate glass negative by William Henry Jackson, Detroit Publishing Co. View full size.
Circa 1900. "Portrait of a woman." Our third visit with this pensive model. Dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.