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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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July 1942. "Hayti, Missouri. Cotton Carnival. Picnic." Brought to you by Wonder Bread. Medium format acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Office of War Information. View full size.
July 1942. "Hayti, Missouri. Cotton Carnival picnic. Boy eating." Medium format acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Office of War Information. View full size.
July 1942. "Hayti, Missouri. Breaking a wishbone at the Cotton Carnival picnic." Acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Office of War Information. View full size.
July 1942. "U.S. Rural Electrification Services. Miscellaneous scenes in Dunklin County, Missouri. Kennett, seat of Dunklin County, at election time. Courthouse square." Acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Office of War Information. View full size.
July 1942. "Dunklin County, Missouri. Daughters of a U.S. Rural Electrification Administration (REA) cooperative member using electric appliances in their farm kitchen." Acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Office of War Information. View full size.
July 1942. "Hayti, Missouri. U.S. Rural Electrification Administration (REA) lineman examining transformers of a substation." Acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the OWI. View full size.
July 1942. "Hayti, Missouri. U.S. Rural Electrification Administration cooperative lineman." Acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Office of War Information. View full size.
August 1942. "Detroit, Michigan. Boys in the Polish district." Acetate negative by John Vachon for the U.S. Foreign Information Service. View full size.
August 1942. "Interlochen, Michigan. National Music Camp, where some 300 young musicians study symphonic music for eight weeks each summer. Dance jamboree on a Monday night." Acetate negative by Arthur S. Siegel for the U.S. Foreign Information Service. View full size.
August 14, 1942. "New York. Drying hair after dyeing it at Francois de Paris, a hairdresser on West Eighth Street." Photo by Marjory Collins for the Office of War Information. View full size.
August 1942. "Interlochen, Michigan. National music camp where 300 or more young musicians study symphonic music for eight weeks each summer. Three young girls." 4x5 acetate negative by Arthur S. Siegel for the U.S. Foreign Information Service. View full size.
August 1942. "Detroit, Michigan. Waiting room at Greyhound bus depot." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the U.S. Foreign Information Service. View full size.
August 1942. "Detroit, Michigan. Children." Acetate negative by John Vachon for the U.S. Foreign Information Service. View full size.
July 1942. "Dunklin County, Missouri. Children leaving school." Acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Office of War Information. View full size.
August 1942. "Nashville, Tennessee. Welding parts for fuel pumps. Vultee Aircraft Corporation plant." Acetate negative by Jack Delano for the U.S. Foreign Information Service. View full size.