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June 1940. "Trucks in service station on Bladensburg Road, Washington, D.C., U.S. Route 1." Medium format negative by Jack Delano. View full size.
April 1941. "Franklin, Heard County, Georgia. A game of pool in the general store." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano. View full size.
January 1940. "Tenants living in a crackerbox. Slum tenement in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania." Medium format negative by Jack Delano. View full size.
December 1940. "Grocery store window in Bath, Maine. Food prices do not seem to have gone up as yet but are expected to." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
April 1941. "Gas station in Franklin, nine o'clock in the evening. Heard County, Georgia." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano. View full size.
April 1941. "Mrs. Lemuel Smith, wife of Farm Security Administration borrower, preparing the afternoon meal on her farm in Carroll County, Georgia." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the FSA. View full size.
"St. Mark's Square," circa 1950. From a set of Kodachrome slides I found in an antique store, apparently taken by American tourists. The slides aren't dated, but the mounts are the type used by Kodak from 1950 to 1955. View full size.
May 1941. "Soldiers from Fort Benning in a country store near Phenix City, Alabama." Medium format negative by Jack Delano. View full size.
June 1940. "Truckers at the Capital truck comfort station on New York Avenue. U.S. No. 1, Washington, D.C." Acetate negative by Jack Delano. View full size.
May 1940. "Corner store at 11 p.m. Durham, North Carolina." Medium format negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Circa 1906. "Congregational church in Williamstown, Massachusetts." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Circa 1905. "Twelfth Street bascule bridge over the Chicago River." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
April 1941. "Instructors in roller skating at the Savoy Ballroom in Chicago." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee. View full size.
August 1940. "The family of John Yeuser [i.e., Yenser]. Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania. Photos of East, Upper, and Lower Mauch Chunk, a small historic coal mining town in the Lehigh Valley." Medium format negative by Jack Delano. View full size.
August 1940. "One of the children of John Yeuser [Yenser] of Mauch Chunk, a coal mining town in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley." Photo by Jack Delano. View full size.