May 1940. "One of the seven children of Burdell White, FSA client near Venton, Maryland." Photo by Jack Delano, Farm Security Administration. View full size.

Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 1938. "Shenandoah. House fronts in a mining town." Medium format acetate negative by Sheldon Dick. View full size.

Circa 1910. "Gate lodge and Niles Beach, East Gloucester, Mass." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

East Gloucester, Massachusetts, circa 1910. "Niles Beach." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Charleston, South Carolina, circa 1910. "Meeting Street and St. Michael's Church." 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Circa 1910. "Freighter Midland King, Cleveland, Ohio." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Cleveland circa 1910. "Lift Bridge, Cuyahoga River." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Detroit, 1907. "Penobscot Building and State Savings Bank, Fort and Shelby Streets." 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Ecorse, Michigan, circa 1905. "Gantry crane, Great Lakes Engineering Works." 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

San Francisco circa 1920. "Studebaker Big Six town car." In what must be one of the city's tonier districts. 5x7 glass negative by Christopher Helin. View full size.

May 1941. San Diego. "Family living at Kearney Mesa defense housing project. This man came to California from Oklahoma 10 years ago. He has been an agricultural worker living in various FSA camps. Now employed as a painter at Consolidated Aircraft." Acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

This uncaptioned photo from the Library of Congress archive has no date or attribution, although various clues (including the neighboring frames) point to it being taken in 1938 by Sheldon Dick, somewhere in the East. View full size.

1938. "New York, New York. Children on First Avenue." Medium format negative by Sheldon Dick for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

San Francisco City Hall on March 14, 1965. I was with friends to take in the St. Patrick's Day Parade and we apparently tooled around beforehand, giving me an opportunity to take this Kodachrome slide with its smattering of cars, some of them already classics. Back in 1956, Chryslers of that year with their big, luscious tail lights had been among my favorites, and here we have two of them. Among the others, an old bathtub Lincoln, a later-model Thunderbird and a smidgen of a Corvair. If you want to park here now, forget it. Later on at the parade, I took this shot featuring another car, and also a governor. View full size.

July 1941. "Twenty-mule-team-drawn combine. Walla Walla County, Washington. This outfit gets to work at 6 in the morning. Knocks off at 11 for rest, food and water for mules and men, goes back to work at 1 and works till 6." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.