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Julien Case in the county agent's office in Florence, Alabama. Photographed by Arthur Rothstein in 1942 while documenting Tennessee Valley Authority work. View full size.
A welder working on the Tennessee Valley Authority's Cherokee Dam in Tennessee. Photograph by Arthur Rothstein, 1942. View full size.
August 28, 1922. A horse at the Animal Rescue League in Washington, D.C. 5x7 glass negative, National Photo Company Collection. View full size.
1921. The Edwards boy with Will Hays in Washington. View full size. 5x4 glass negative, National Photo Company Collection.
1921. Edwards boy at inaugural stand in Washington (East Portico of the Capitol). View full size. 5x7 glass negative, National Photo Company Collection.
A portrait of two girls seated, one looking at the braided hair of the other. The photograph is by the Tonnesen Sisters of Chicago, c. 1900. The Tonnesen Sisters ran one of the country's first photo studios for the purpose of creating advertising images. They also ran one of the first professional modeling agencies. View full size.
Madam Varela and children pose in 1922. From the National Photo Company collection. The family was likely part of the diplomatic community in Washington. View full size.
A 1938 promotional poster showing the many types of winter sports available in Arosa, Switzerland: Ice hockey, ice skating, skiing, and curling. View full size.
Members of the American Mission in Beirut & Tripoli ski in the Cedars, Lebanon. From the Matson Photo Service, 1946. View full size.
May 1939. "Second and third grade children being made up for their Negro song and dance at May Day-Health Day festivities." Ashwood Plantations, South Carolina. View full size. Photograph by Marion Post Wolcott for the FSA.
Ten women in a cooking class at the Hampton Institute in Hampton, Va. Photograph by Frances Benjamin Johnston, c. 1899. View full size.
December 1942. A young worker at the Chicago & North Western 40th Street shops. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano.
August 1942. "First snow of the season in the foothills of the Little Belt Mountains. Lewis and Clark National Forest, Meagher County, Montana." 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.