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A.P. Godber

Glass plate negatives taken circa 1899-1946 by New Zealand Railways employee Albert Percy Godber (1875-1949). Credit: Godber Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library.

4 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 06/20/2014 - 6:35am

Adam Maclay

Photographer in Christchurch, New Zealand. Adam Maclay Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library.

20 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 06/17/2014 - 7:03pm

Albert Fenn

Office of War Information photos from the winter of 1941-42 documenting "the life of Negroes in New York, their professions, occupations, and recreational activities."

6 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 04/16/2014 - 1:57pm

Albert Freeman

Office of War Information photographer during WW2.

16 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 02/21/2018 - 11:09am

Alexander Gardner

Alexander Gardner (1821-1882), Civil War photographer. Images from the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.

16 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 02/28/2018 - 12:58pm

Alfred Eisenstaedt

Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898-1995). Images from the Time-Life archive.

4 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Mon, 09/12/2011 - 1:41pm

Alfred Palmer

Alfred T. Palmer (1906-1993). Images from the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.

164 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 12/16/2022 - 3:05pm

Andreas Feininger

Andreas Feininger (1906-1999). Images from the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.

39 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 05/12/2021 - 1:28pm

Pictures taken in New York between 1952 and 1966 by "troubled recluse" Angelo Rizzuto (1906-1967), an "outsider" artist whose work was unknown and unappreciated until after his death, at which time his 60,000 negatives and prints were bequeathed to the Library of Congress.

7 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Thu, 11/18/2021 - 1:43pm

Ann Rosener

Ann Rosener. Images from the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.

49 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 11/14/2020 - 2:31pm

ANRC

Images from the American National Red Cross Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress. Includes glass negatives taken in France during World War I.

23 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 08/18/2020 - 11:45am

Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams (1902-1984). Images from the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.

14 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 10/07/2008 - 12:15am

Arnold Genthe

Prussian-born American photographer (1869-1942).

50 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 11/03/2021 - 2:29pm

Arthur Rothstein

Arthur Rothstein (1915-1985), American photographer who covered everything from the Dust Bowl for the Farm Security Administration to news stories for Look magazine. Rothstein grew up in the Bronx and attended Columbia University, where he helped found the University Camera Club. He later worked for the Columbia University School of Journalism.

446 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 05/27/2023 - 5:33pm

Arthur Siegel

Arthur Siegel, photographer for the Office of War Information. Images from the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.

60 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 02/01/2023 - 3:01pm

Balthazar Korab

1926-2013. Hungarian-born architectural photographer who began working for Eero Saarinen at his office in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, in 1955.

23 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sun, 05/07/2023 - 4:30pm

Bell Studio

Glass plate negatives circa 1873-1916 from the portrait studio of Washington, D.C., photographer Charles Milton Bell (1848-1893) and its successors.

52 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 05/10/2023 - 8:42pm

Ben Shahn

Ben Shahn (1898-1969), Lithuanian-born artist and photographer. Images from the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.

88 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 05/07/2014 - 1:20pm

Berenice Abbott

Photographs taken for the Federal Art Project, now in the Changing New York Collection of the New York Public Library.

8 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 02/13/2016 - 4:06pm

C.H. White

Clarence H. White (1871-1925), exponent of the Photo-Secessionist and Pictorialist schools of photography.

3 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 08/19/2020 - 11:04am

Carl Mydans

Carl Mydans (1907-2004). Images from the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.

73 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Thu, 01/27/2022 - 12:58pm

Carol M. Highsmith

1 photo in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 07/31/2010 - 11:54am

Charles & Ray Eames

Husband-and-wife furniture and interior design team.

11 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 02/05/2020 - 8:17pm

Chris Helin

Photos from glass negatives attributed to Christopher Helin, automotive writer and travel editor of the San Francisco Examiner from around 1915 to 1930.

310 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 01/31/2023 - 6:08pm

D.C. Street Survey

Circa 1900-1905 collection of approximately 207 glass negatives, possibly related to the McMillan Commission Survey, showing various locales throughout Washington, D.C.

39 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 04/27/2022 - 12:01pm

David Myers

15 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Mon, 08/24/2020 - 9:17am

Don Cox

Photos taken by, or relating to, Don Cox, pioneer of dry-lake racing in the postwar years. Donated to Shorpy by his colleague (and "Birth of Hot Rodding" co-author) Robert Genat.

23 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sun, 08/01/2021 - 5:49pm

Dorothea Lange

Dorothea Lange (1895-1965). This socially conscious documentarian of Dust Bowl migrants in the 1930s took one of the most famous photographs of the Depression era, Migrant Mother. Born on May 26, 1895, in Hoboken, New Jersey, Lange learned photography at Columbia University in New York. During the Great Depression she worked for the Farm Security Administration documenting the plight of the unemployed, homeless and migrant laborers. Lange died on October 11, 1965, in San Francisco.

279 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Mon, 10/31/2022 - 12:10pm

DPC

Glass negatives from the Detroit Photographic / Detroit Publishing collection at the Library of Congress. These glass plates were the starting point for the millions of colored postcards sold by Detroit Publishing in the early years of the 20th century. The images were made using Detroit Publishing's patented Photochrom process.

In 1939, a year before his death, Detroit Publishing partner William Henry Jackson, whose western plates formed the basis of the company's holdings in its early days, gave the negatives and prints to the Edison Institute (now known as the Henry Ford Museum) in Dearborn, Michigan. In 1949, the Edison Institute gave all of the negatives and many duplicate photographs to the Colorado Historical Society. The Colorado Historical Society transferred most of the negatives and prints for sites east of the Mississippi to the Library of Congress later that year.

3379 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Thu, 05/25/2023 - 1:00pm

E.H. Hart

45 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 02/11/2023 - 11:17am

E.M. Douglas

Edward M. Douglas (1857-1936), U.S. Geological Survey employee whose circa 1895 glass plates depict his family and home in Takoma Park, Maryland.

9 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Mon, 06/29/2015 - 2:17pm

Ed Westcott

Army Corps of Engineers photographer who documented activities of the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, during World War 2.

3 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 09/14/2021 - 12:24pm

Edward Curtis

5 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sun, 10/27/2019 - 3:28pm

Edwin Locke

7 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sun, 06/09/2019 - 12:09pm

Edwin Rosskam

49 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Thu, 05/16/2019 - 10:20pm

Esther Bubley

134 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 07/20/2021 - 9:10am

F. Holland Day

3 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 07/14/2017 - 9:53pm

F.B. Johnston

Photographs of the pioneering feminist Frances Benjamin Johnston, commissioned by the Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South.

166 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 10/22/2019 - 7:11pm

Fenno Jacobs

25 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Mon, 09/18/2017 - 4:17pm

Fitz W. Guerin

Fitz W. Guerin (1846 -1903). Images from the Library of Congress

14 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 12/09/2009 - 10:31am

Fritz Henle

20 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 09/29/2018 - 2:11pm

G.G. Bain

Photos taken mostly in and around New York City by newsphoto pioneer George Grantham Bain's Bain News Service.

669 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Thu, 03/16/2023 - 10:41pm

Geo. Barnard

30 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 03/23/2019 - 10:09am

Gertrude Kasebier

19 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sun, 10/27/2019 - 3:27pm

Gordon Parks

1912-2006. Photographer, musician, writer and film director who got his start as a photojournalist with the Farm Security Administration. The first African-American to work as a staff photographer for Life magazine and the first black artist to produce and direct a major Hollywood film ("The Learning Tree," 1969).

62 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 02/14/2023 - 2:34pm

Gottscho-Schleisner

New York-based firm specializing in architectural photography, founded by Samuel H. Gottscho (1875-1971) with partner William Schleisner.

279 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 05/16/2023 - 12:29am

HABS

Historic American Buildings Survey

37 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Thu, 10/27/2022 - 2:13pm

Harris + Ewing

Harris & Ewing black-and-white photographs imaged directly from large-format glass negatives. The photographs were made by the prominent Washington, D.C., photo studio founded in 1905 by George Harris and Martha Ewing. Harris & Ewing glass plates currently residing in the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Collection.

1018 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 12/31/2021 - 12:40pm

Harry W. Frees

The novelty photos of Harry Whittier Frees (1879-1953), whose posed puppies and kittens illustrated postcards and children's books.

30 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 05/19/2018 - 1:54pm

Howard Hollem

Howard R. Hollem (1902-1949), photographer for the Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information. His Kodachromes of women war workers in the 1940s helped form the image of "Rosie the Riveter" as a cultural icon.

60 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 12/07/2021 - 1:11pm

Howard Liberman

11 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 11/13/2020 - 10:58pm

Irving Underhill

23 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 08/21/2020 - 1:26pm

Jack Allison

7 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 02/02/2018 - 7:11am

Jack Delano

1914-1997. Born Jacob Ovcharov in Kiev, Ukraine. Farm Security Administration photographer noted for his work in Puerto Rico. Here at Shorpy, his large-format Kodachromes of trains and railroads are among the most popular posts.

663 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 04/14/2023 - 1:38pm

Jacob Riis

Photographs by the Danish-American social reformer Jacob August Riis (1849-1914).

1 photo in this gallery

Last updated: Thu, 04/21/2022 - 10:29am

James Gardner

3 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Mon, 05/19/2008 - 11:37pm

James Gibson

11 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Thu, 03/21/2019 - 6:50pm

John Collier

1913-1992. Photographer for the Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information. Author of "Visual Anthropology."

186 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 03/15/2023 - 4:06pm

John Ferrell

Photographer for the Office of War Information.

10 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Mon, 11/23/2020 - 3:22pm

John Grabill

7 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 05/15/2019 - 11:59pm

John M. Fox

Mid-century New York photographer whose address was 1175 Park Avenue.

26 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 04/18/2015 - 9:29am

John Vachon

599 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 05/13/2023 - 12:51pm

Joseph Horne

11 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 12/06/2017 - 11:36am

Julius Shulman

6 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 09/13/2011 - 12:12pm

Lewis Hine

Photos taken by Lewis Wickes Hine for the National Child Labor Commission and its report to Congress.

550 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sun, 02/26/2023 - 3:12pm

LIFE

Life magazine photo archive.

31 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Mon, 02/27/2023 - 11:00am

LOOK

Photos taken by various photographers for Look magazine in the 1940s, '50s and '60s.

293 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 04/08/2023 - 7:57pm

Louise Rosskam

12 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Thu, 04/14/2022 - 2:26pm

Lt. Whitman

Office of War Information photographer assigned to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis.

6 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 07/20/2021 - 8:56am

M.P. Wolcott

Marion Post Wolcott (1910-1990), pioneering female photojournalist for the Farm Security Administration.

351 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 12/07/2022 - 5:22pm

Margaret Bourke-White

5 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 11/28/2008 - 5:53pm

Marjory Collins

121 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 05/13/2023 - 8:33pm

Martha Roberts

Photographs by Martha McMillan Roberts.

6 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sun, 10/21/2018 - 3:57pm

Mathew Brady

12 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 10/13/2020 - 4:43pm

Matson

30 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 01/21/2015 - 11:37am

Maynard L. Parker

(1900-1976) Architectural photographer who was among the pre-eminent contributors to House Beautiful and similar publications in midcentury America.

5 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 03/07/2015 - 10:30pm

Natl Photo

Photographs taken in and near Washington, D.C., by the National Photo Co., whose archive of thousands of negatives (mostly glass plates) and prints was donated by proprietor Herbert E. French to the Library of Congress in 1947.

2025 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 03/11/2023 - 3:24pm

News Photo Archive

4x5 negatives retired from the archives of U.S. newspapers, acquired and scanned by Shorpy. So far the bulk of the images seem to be from either Chicagoland or Columbus, Georgia. There are also dozens of car-accident photos from Oakland, California, which have their own sub-gallery (Signal 30).

240 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 01/10/2023 - 11:58pm

Paul Thompson

5 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Mon, 11/07/2022 - 5:09pm

Philip Bonn

7 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Mon, 10/16/2017 - 4:41am

Phillip Harrington

Photos of a young Elvis Presley.

25 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 01/27/2021 - 7:36pm

R.L. Bracklow

Glass negatives by Robert L. Bracklow (1849-1919), a member of the Society of Amateur Photographers of New York.

3 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Mon, 04/25/2022 - 1:39pm

Ralph Amdursky

Photos for the U.S. Office of War Information of the Babcocks, a "typical war worker's family" living in Rochester, New York.

11 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Thu, 09/07/2017 - 9:05pm

Richard Boyer

2 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 05/27/2017 - 10:28am

Russell Lee

772 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 05/20/2023 - 1:07pm

S.F. Webb

Glass plates by New Zealand photographer Steffano Francis Webb.

3 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 08/13/2013 - 3:30pm

Sam Cooley

12 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Mon, 02/24/2014 - 5:38pm

Sheldon Dick

1906-1950. Farm Security Administration photographer known mainly for the violent circumstances of his death.

22 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Thu, 11/05/2020 - 11:18am

Stanley Kubrick

11 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 04/28/2017 - 7:40am

Theodor Horydczak

71 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 09/16/2022 - 1:34pm

Theodor Jung

13 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sun, 12/04/2011 - 11:17am

Thomas Roche

5 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sun, 09/11/2011 - 11:51am

Timothy O'Sullivan

24 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 05/27/2014 - 8:41am

Toni Frissell

33 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 04/19/2023 - 10:17am

W. Stanley

Large-format negatives, purchased from the estate of Marilyn Blaisdell and scanned by Shorpy, that were once part of the Wyland Stanley Collection of San Francisco historical memorabilia.

115 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 01/24/2020 - 10:30am

W.H. Jackson

William Henry Jackson (1843-1942), pioneering landscape photographer whose glass negatives formed a major part of the Detroit Publishing Company's holdings.

148 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 10/21/2022 - 4:29pm

Walker Evans

Walker Evans (1903-1975), Farm Security Administration photographer who documented the hardships and poverty of the Depression era, focusing on the rural South. Collaborated with the writer James Agee on the book "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men."

80 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 02/07/2023 - 9:48am

William Cruikshank

4 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sun, 07/29/2012 - 7:42pm

William Gedney

Photographs from Duke University's William Gale Gedney (1932-1989) Photographs and Writings Collection.

19 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 07/20/2012 - 9:05pm

William Gottlieb

Photographer for Down Beat magazine; chronicler of the New York jazz scene in the 1940s and '50s.

10 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Mon, 02/06/2023 - 1:48pm

William Morris Smith

3 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 01/29/2019 - 12:21am

Wright Brothers

12 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 06/22/2022 - 6:02pm

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