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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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April 1939. "Migrant agricultural workers in California along U.S. Highway 99. Greenfield, Salinas Valley. An Arkansawyers auto camp filled almost completely with migrants from Arkansas. Rent ten dollars a month for one room, iron bed, electricity. Rough board walls with cracks. This community is subject of a study by Regional Office, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Land Utilization Division, Berkeley." 4x5 inch nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

August 4, 1935. Montgomery County, Maryland. "Children in swimming pool at Glen Echo amusement park." 4x5 inch acetate negative by Theodor Horydczak. View full size.

November 1903. "The testing room, Leland & Faulconer Manufacturing Co., Detroit, Michigan." Men working in the foundry and machine shop that produced automobile engines and merged with Cadillac Motor Co. in 1905. 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Photographic Co. View full size.

May 1937. "Crossing the international bridge between Juarez, Mexico, and El Paso, Texas." Nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.

September 1939. Klamath Falls, Oregon. "Burner (to dispose of sawdust and waste) and stacks of the Big Lakes Lumber Company, which produces shook for produce boxes." 4x5 inch acetate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

May 1939. "Between Tulare and Fresno on U.S. 99. Auto camps of all kinds are strewn along this highway." Photo by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

May 1939. "U.S. 99 near Tulare, California. Used car lots and auto wrecking establishments add to the litter which fronts this highway." Medium format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

August 1937. "Vacant building in Biwabik, Minnesota. Abandoned iron mining town." Medium format nitrate negative by Russell Lee for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.

June 1937. "Firetower. Allegan reforestation project of the U.S. Resettlement Administration in southwest Michigan." Medium format nitrate negative by Russell Lee. View full size.

July 1937. "Water wagon. New Glarus, Wisconsin." (Rear view here.) Medium format nitrate negative by Russell Lee for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.

July 1937. "Horse watering trough. New Glarus, Wisconsin." Medium format nitrate negative by Russell Lee for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.

July 1937. "Water wagon. New Glarus, Wisconsin." (Front view here.) Medium format nitrate negative by Russell Lee for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.

December 1910. Rossville, Georgia. "Two of the young boys working in Richmond Hosiery Mills." Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine for the National Child Labor Committee. View full size.

March 1936. "Consumers Utah 'Blue Blaze' company store in coal town. Near Price, Utah." 4x5 inch nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.

July 1938. "The main street of Dover, Delaware." Where the drugs are Wise and the bicoastal tea is Great. Nitrate negative by John Vachon, Farm Security Administration. View full size.

St. James, New York, 1950. "St. James Episcopal Church bazaar." Our second look at these pastel parishioners. Medium format color transparency by Toni Frissell. View full size.