About trialsanderrors  

Kia ora! Përshëndetje! Mbote! Yasou! Namaste! Salaam! Góðan daginn! O HAI!

I was born and grew up here and eventually moved here, and later to south of here and then for the last years here. I work for those guys, but also spent some time working here, here and west of here. Now I'm back where I started. Sometimes I take my own pictures.



I spend some of my spare time sifting through the digital attic of the U.S. Library of Congress and other free online repositories, trying to find pictures that are historical or peculiar, or historical and peculiar, or just plain odd. This collection is a "best of" of four years of browsing. Pictures here are taken from the original tiff files (often 50MB and bigger), cleaned up, and converted to high quality jpg.



Some of the major collections
Photochrom postcards from the Detroit Publishing Co. collection
Collectibles on early flight themes from the Tissandier collection
Early baseball cards from the Benjamin Edwards collection
Great Depression & World War 2, photographs from the FSA-OWI collection
Portraits of Ziegfeld girls by Alfred Cheney Johnston
Portraits of Native Americans by Heyn Photo and others
Black & white photographs from various collections

Random advertising posters and signs
Posters from the Works Progress Administration
Color separation photographs of Russia by Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii
Photographs from the National Child Labor Committee

All pictures have links to their original descriptions. Please use the occasion and visit the Library of Congress and other collections. The Library of Congress also has a Flickr site.

Thank you for all comments, but I will only leave those up that do not use distracting graphics.

<legalese>All pictures posted here are assumed to be in the public domain in the U.S. and the originating country, based on the assessment of the Library of Congress and my own research. No research is perfect though and if new evidence comes to light that there are valid copyright claims on a picture I will remove it on request. My research also does not relieve anyone else from doing their own due diligence if they want to make use of any of the pictures here in a way that would, if copyright existed, constitute an infringement.</legalese>

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