June 21, 1917. Monmouth Park, New Jersey. "Signal Corps men dancing." 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. View full size.

Washington, 1924. "Buick Motor Co." A demonstration of "Buick standard- ization." (More here.) National Photo Company glass negative. View full size.

From 1925, another Ford at work (for a billboard company that advertises Fords) on the streets of greater Washington. View full size. National Photo Company.

February 9, 1916. "Mountain Chief of Piegan Blackfeet making phonographic record at Smithsonian." The interviewer is ethnologist Frances Densmore. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.

October 1938. "Princesses on float at the National Rice Festival parade. Crowley, Louisiana." View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Russell Lee for the FSA.

New York, 1917. "Examination on Recruit." Our inductee gets weighed aboard the "landship" in Union Square. View full size. Geo. Grantham Bain Collection.

May 1943. Peso-brandishing beet harvesters brought north from Mexico by the Farm Security Administration during World War 2. View full size. OWI photo.

May 1942. Parris Island, South Carolina. "Marine lieutenant glider pilot in training at Page Field." View full size. 35mm Kodachrome transparency: Alfred Palmer.

September 1932. "Iraq oil fields. Man with fires in desert." American Colony Photo Department, Matson Photo Collection. View full size.

1925. "Minute Service Station No. 3, 10th and E Streets N.W." A Standard Oil gas station in Washington, D.C. National Photo Co. glass negative. View full size.

"Summer Scene, New York" circa 1913. View full size. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress.

May 1943. More Mexican sugar-beet pickers headed north. "Mexican workers recruited and brought to the Arkansas valley, Colorado, Nebraska and Minnesota by the FSA to harvest sugar beets." View full size. Office of War Information.

New York, 1917. Another shot of the sailors and mascots aboard the U.S.S. Recruit, a mock battleship moored in Union Square as a Naval recruiting station. View full size. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection.

England, 1940-41. "Battle of Britain. Children in an English bomb shelter." British Information Service/U.S. Office of War Information. View full size.

May 1943. "Mexican workers recruited and brought to the Arkansas valley, Colorado, Nebraska and Minnesota by the Farm Security Administration to harvest sugar beets under contract with the Inter-mountain Agricultural Improvement Association." View full size. Office of War Information.