Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppression of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

-- Thomas Jefferson

Washington, D.C., circa 1950. "Thomas Jefferson Reading Room, Adams Building, Library of Congress." 8x10 negative by Theodor Horydczak. View full size.

December 9, 1932. "International Music Hall, Radio City, New York. Foyer from balcony." Large-format acetate negative by Gottscho-Schleisner. View full size.

1959. "Anne Anderson in RCA-Whirlpool 'Miracle Kitchen of the Future,' a display at the American National Exhibition in Moscow." Photo by Bob Lerner for the Look magazine article "What the Russians Will See." View full size.

1954. "Harley Earl, General Motors Vice President of Design, in Frigidaire's 'Kitchen of Tomorrow' exhibit for the GM Motorama at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York." Large-format color transparency. View full size.

Washington, D.C. (vicinity) circa 1915. "Along the C&O Canal." This completes a trilogy started here 10 years ago (One, Two); now these boys can finally dry off and go home. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1921. "National Fruit Co. -- Eleventh Street N.W." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.

New York circa 1904. "Brooklyn Navy Yard -- view from Sands Street entrance." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

May 1941. "Mrs. Fanny Parrott, wife of former slave near Siloam, Greene County, Georgia." Medium format negative by Jack Delano. View full size.

Columbia County, Pennsylvania, circa 1901. "Hanging rock on the Susquehanna, near Danville." A scene last glimpsed here. 8x10 glass negative. View full size.

Cleveland circa 1900. "Arcade Building, south face, Euclid Avenue." Public Square in the distance. 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Photographic Co. View full size.

New York circa 1912. "Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street." At left, the East Coast outlet of California's Cawston Ostrich Farm. 5x7 inch glass negative. View full size.

August 1915. "Steamship ticket office at pier, Avalon, Catalina Island, California." 5x7 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Venice, California, circa 1907. "View of the Abbot Kinney Pier showing auditorium, Ship Cafe and dance hall." 5x7 inch dry plate glass negative. View full size.

San Francisco, 1918. "Columbia Six touring car." Today's specimen in the Shorpy Menagerie of Mesozoic Motorcars. Photo by Christopher Helin. View full size.

Pittsburgh circa 1904. "Post Office, Fourth Avenue and Smithfield Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.