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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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September 3, 1942. "New York, New York. Newsroom of the New York Times newspaper. Reporters and rewrite men writing stories, and waiting to be sent out. Rewrite man in background gets the story on the phone from reporter outside." Medium format acetate negative by Marjory Collins for the Office of War Information. View full size.
September 3, 1942. "New York, New York. Newsroom of the New York Times newspaper. Right foreground, city editor. Two assistants, left foreground. City copy desk in middle ground, with foreign desk, to right; telegraph desk to left. Makeup desk in center back with spiral staircase leading to composing room. Copy readers go up there to check proofs." Medium format acetate negative by Marjory Collins for the Office of War Information. View full size.
September 3, 1942. "New York, New York. Wire room of the New York Times newspaper. Copy boy about to tear off dispatch from the Associated Press wire." Medium format acetate negative by Marjory Collins for the Office of War Information. View full size.
September 3, 1942. "New York, New York. Radio room of the New York Times newspaper. The Times listening post, between 10 pm and midnight, between first and second editions. The operator is listening to Axis news (propaganda) broadcast. Paper in foreground has been examined to see what has already been covered in last edition of paper. Operator reports and gives new angles to city editor. Messages are recorded on paper tape in international Morse code." Acetate negative by Marjory Collins for the Office of War Information. View full size.
Cleveland, Ohio, circa 1911. "Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Bldg., St. Clair Avenue and Ontario Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Cleveland, Ohio, circa 1912. "U.S. Post Office, Custom House and Court House, Public Square." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Washington, D.C., 1917. "Auto and motorcycle races at Benning track." 5x7 inch glass negative, National Photo Company Collection. View full size.
Detroit circa 1918. "Sky scrapers from interurban station, Jefferson Avenue at Bates Street." A view last glimpsed here. And here! Landmarks include, left to right, the Ford Building (put up by the L-O-F Fords, not the Model T Fords), Dime Savings Bank, Detroit City Hall, Hotel Pontchartrain and Real Estate Exchange. 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size.
September 1942. "Fort Belvoir, Virginia. George Camplair getting his injections at the reception center." Acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.
September 1942. "Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Sergeant George Camplair cleans his rifle regularly." Acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.
August 1942. "Big Hole Valley, Beaverhead County, Montana. Buildings on the main street of Wisdom, Montana, trading center for the Big Hole Valley. This is cattle country." Acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Office of War Information. View full size.
April 7, 1932. "New York city views. Radio City from the Goelet Building." The beginnings of the RCA Building ("30 Rock"), with the almost-completed RKO Building as backdrop, amid the Midtown Manhattan construction project, known early on as Radio City, that would become Rockefeller Center. 5x7 inch acetate negative by Gottscho-Schleisner. View full size.
October 1958, somewhere in Pennsylvania. Big brother is ready for a night of trick-or-treating. Rob from the rich, and share with your understudy! Our fourth selection from a batch of Kodachrome slides found on eBay. View full size.
September 1942. Washington, D.C. "Sergeant George Camplair takes his girl to have some refreshments after the United Service Organization (USO) dance while he is at home on a weekend furlough." Acetate negative by Jack Delano, Office of War Information. View full size.
September 1942. "Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Sergeant George Camplair on one of his many visits to the post exchange." Acetate negative by Jack Delano, Office of War Information. View full size.