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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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Washington, D.C., circa 1926. "Internal Revenue." A seasonal reminder from Shorpy. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
The Metropolitan Opera baritone Giuseppe De Luca, out and about in New York circa 1920. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. View full size.
July 1909. Baltimore, Maryland. "Workers stringing beans in the J.S. Farrand Packing Co. Those too small to work are held on laps of workers or stowed away in boxes." Photograph and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size.
Washington, D.C., circa 1917. "Cuban Legation sitting room." The new embassy in Meridian Hill. Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. View full size.
This is my brother Paul (right) with a friend, Danny Bergman, who lived four or five houses down the block. It was taken in 1973 on the driveway in front of our house in Huntington Beach, California. I built the "machine gun" for them from spare pieces of PVC, wood and assorted hardware that were lying around in the
1920. "Washington School for Secretaries. Typing room." Note the Dictaphone in the middle. Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. View full size.
"Junior high school classroom." With one lucky (?) boy in the back. In or around Washington, D.C., circa 1921. Harris & Ewing glass negative. View full size.
July 1909. Baltimore, Md. "One of the small boys in J.S. Farrand Packing Co. and a heavy load. J.W. Magruder, witness." Photo: Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size.
November 1864. "Dutch Gap, Virginia. Bomb-proof quarters of Major Strong." Wet plate glass negative from photographs of the main Eastern theater of war, the Army of the James, June 1864-April 1865. View full size.
Washington, D.C., circa 1920. "Washington Herald -- Wyoming Avenue." Where is this house? National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
Washington, D.C., 1911. "Mrs. J.R. Band with pet rabbit." Happy Easter from Shorpy! Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. View full size.
My cousin Stephen hunting Easter eggs at our grandmother's house in Anderson, Indiana. Probably the mid-1950s. Scanned from a 35mm Kodachrome transparency likely taken by our Aunt Lee. View full size.
From an old family scrapbook: "Come to our picnic and egg hunt at Bull Creek bridge Thursday April 17 1930 at 10 oclock." Inola, Oklahoma. View full size.