Detroit circa 1910. "Wayne Hotel pavilion, Third Street, Detroit River." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Detroit circa 1910. "Wayne Hotel pavilion, Third Street, Detroit River." Belle Isle Park steamers dock every 20 minutes! 8x10 glass negative. View full size.

1902. "Superior Street, Duluth, Minnesota." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative by William Henry Jackson, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

May 1909. "Leopold Daigneau and Arsene Lussier, 'back-roping boys' in mule-spinning room at Chace Cotton Mill, Burlington, Vermont." Glass negative by the child-labor reformer Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size.

June 1939. "Migrant steeplejack removing the crankcase from his automobile while his father blocks up the front wheel near Prague, Oklahoma. When he secures a job, the entire family, consisting of his father and mother, wife and sister, all help with the painting." Acetate negative by Russell Lee. View full size.

August 1936. "Grain elevators at Dumas, Texas." Medium format negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

June 1939. "Son of day laborer living in Arkansas River bottom at Webbers Falls, Muskogee County, Oklahoma. The father is a former tenant farmer, now on WPA." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the FSA. View full size.

November 1939. "Hughesville, Missouri, where the headquarters of the Osage Farms project is located, was once one of the largest livestock and grain shipping points in the state." Acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein. View full size.

October 1939. "Masquerade at Halloween party. Hillview cooperative, Osage Farms, Missouri." Acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein. View full size.

May 1940. "Main street of Bisbee, Arizona. Copper mining center." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

October 1939. "A stumpy valley where new farms are being established. Photos show character of land which settlers are buying -- stump land farmers making a new start in the Priest River Valley, Idaho." Medium format acetate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

July 1939. "Migrant boy who is somewhat of a mechanic tightening the rear wheel on truck which will carry his family [that of of tenant farmer Elmer Thomas] to California from Muskogee, Oklahoma." Photo by Russell Lee. View full size.

July 1939. "En route to California. Pouring water into radiator of migrants' car in the streets of Muskogee, Oklahoma, where the Elmer Thomas family has stopped to say goodbye to their friends in that town." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

July 1941. "Ninth Street amusements, Washington, D.C." Medium format acetate negative by Martha McMillan Roberts for the FSA. View full size.

May 1956. Memphis, Tennessee. "Elvis Presley at home with his mother, Gladys." 35mm negative from photos by Philip Harrington for the Look magazine assignment "Elvis Presley -- He Can't Be, but He Is." View full size.