Observed arrival · 2026-10-13
Old Negatives: America on 35mm, 1939–1942
An archive of 35 rescanned color slides showing American towns, farms, factories and fairs, with full-resolution scans in the public domain.
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- Viewers of American local and rural history
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- The archive groups its 35 frames into five geographic rolls and says each page links to its source.
Field notes
The five rolls group images by region or subject, with captions naming towns, counties, dates and visible scenes such as a horse-drawn potato digger, a factory, and a county fair. The homepage reports 109 MB of full-resolution scans and says each page links to its source; some identifications remain qualified, including one industrial town listed as possibly New Bedford.
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