March 1943. Yardmaster at Amarillo, Texas, railyard. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano, Office of War Information.

Children picket at a waiters strike at the Raleigh Hotel in Washington, D.C. From the National Photo Company collection, between 1918 and 1920. View full size.

Officer Snodgrass of the White House police force holds a captured opossum that strayed onto White House grounds, May 6, 1929. From the National Photo Company collection. View full size.

The display window of Raleigh Haberdasher in Washington, D.C., c. 1925. From the National Photo Company collection. View full size

The children of U.S. Senator Nathaniel Dial, May 27. 1922. From the National Photo Company collection. View full size.

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June 1911. "Mrs. L. Bosher, living in the rundown cotton mill village of Matoaca, Virginia. Her husband has been a mill hand here for a long time but recently got work uptown, as many of their neighbors have done during the slack times, most of them going way into the city [Richmond] to the trunk and cigarette factories." Photograph and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size.

Matoaca, Virginia. June 1911. "Lawrence Purdie (right end) has been spinning in the mule room of the cotton mill at Matoaca for two years. His brother, next to him, helps there. Others in the photo are not working yet. The father is not at work now as work is slack." View full size. Photo and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine.

A closeup of Santa Fe 5000, as identified by Lost World below in the original post of the uncropped photo taken in 1943 by Jack Delano. View full size.

Chicago, April 1943. Proviso freight classification yard of the Chicago & North Western R.R. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano.

October 1935. "Poverty on the march." Wife and child of destitute Ozark family in Arkansas. 35mm nitrate negative by Ben Shahn. View full size.

October 1935. Son of destitute Ozark family on the road in Arkansas. 35mm nitrate negative by Ben Shahn, Farm Security Administration. View full size.

March 1943. Westbound Santa Fe freight on a siding at Ricardo, New Mexico, waiting for the eastbound train to pass. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano. FSA/Office of War Information archive.

Papyrus-motif colonnade, Court of Amenhotep III at the Temple of Thebes (Luxor, Egypt). Circa 1858 albumen print by Francis Frith. View full size.

November 13, 1922. Mrs. Ed B. McLean and children. View full size. National Photo Company Collection. Who can identify the camera for us?