San Francisco circa 1916. "Velie Six touring car at Golden Gate Park." Filed under "V" in the Shorpy Abecedarium of Antiquated Automobiles. 5x7 glass negative by Christopher Helin. View full size.

1940. "Farm family having Fourth of July fish fry along the Cane River near Natchitoches, Louisiana." Photo by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.

Trying to get the Li'l Cornhusker to sleep. Pawnee City, Nebraska, circa 1910 or earlier. Scanned from a 4x5 inch glass negative. View full size.

September 1941. "Two of the Gaynor boys walking to school near Fairfield, Vermont." Medium format negative by Jack Delano. View full size.

The "Li'l Cornhusker" seen here earlier seems finally ready to sleep, in the company of the family dog. A 4x5 glass negative from Pawnee City, Nebraska, circa 1910 or earlier. View full size.

September 1941. "Enosburg Falls, Vermont. Shopping on a Saturday afternoon." Photo by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

This room from well over a hundred years ago in Pawnee City, Nebraska, looks to have been the personal space of a boy or teenager. It's filled with weird little items a teenage boy might have found worth collecting. A handwritten sign on the wall says "WHO ENTERS HERE - LEAVE HOPE BEHIND". A large Punch and Judy puppet is mounted on a chair with a warning not to handle it. Playing cards decorate the walls. The scrawled message on the heating stove says "Sacred to the Memory of a Fireman - He has gone to his last fire". An American flag covers the ceiling. Browse around the room and see what you can find. It's his own private museum, the Voynich Manuscript of Victorian living space! Scanned from a 4x5 glass negative. View full size.

Richmond, Va., circa 1900. "St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Ninth & Grace Streets." The so-called "Cathedral of the Confederacy," attended by Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis. 8x10 glass negative by William Henry Jackson. View full size.

Circa 1900. "Ebbitt House, Washington, D.C." The hotel, at 14th and F Streets NW before being torn down in 1925, lives on in the name of the Old Ebbitt Grill a block away. 8x10 inch glass negative by William Henry Jackson. View full size.

Circa 1910. "Bathing beach, Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

This image of a baby relaxing on the floor comes from a set of glass negatives taken in Pawnee City, Nebraska, around 1910 or earlier. View full size.

Magnolia, Massachusetts, circa 1906. "The Oceanside from Cobblestone Beach." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

        Principal workplace of the Governor of Vermont since 1971, the Second Empire style Pavilion is located at 109 State Street.

Montpelier, Vermont, circa 1904. "Pavilion Hotel." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

Boston circa 1904. "Lafayette Mall -- Masonic Temple and Hotel Touraine." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

        The 1849 Custom House, built at the end of the city docks, was used by the federal government to collect maritime duties in the age of Boston clipper ships. In 1915, after land reclamation had filled in the waterfront, the dome was topped with a 500-foot tower.

Circa 1906. "Custom House -- Boston, Massachusetts." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.