June 1939. "Shadows on tent, Quarter Circle U Ranch, Big Horn County, Mont." Photo by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

Savannah, Georgia, circa 1906. "Bull Street at Liberty Street, and City Hall." 5x7 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

"Fischer, Mrs. J.F. (child). Between February 1894 and February 1901." 5x7 glass negative from the C.M. Bell portrait studio in Washington, D.C. View full size.

Detroit circa 1902. "Photochrom Company Building, front view." Last seen here and here. The boys are still at their ballgame, at least until the cavalry turns the corner. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

December 1941. "Perley Mosley with three pelts from foxes he trapped. Eden Mills, Vermont." Photo by Arthur Rothstein, Office of War Information. View full size.

October 1942. "Health measures for low indoor temperatures. Planning to spend a winter evening at home? Better dress for it the way these attractive government workers do, for homes will be kept to 65 degrees this year due to Federal fuel oil limitation orders. Slacks and warm robes mean comfort under lower temper­atures." Photo by Albert Freeman, Office of War Information. View full size.

Buffalo, New York, circa 1911. "William McKinley monument, Niagara Square." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

A forefinger of stone, dreamed by a sculptor, points to the sky.
It says: This way! this way!

Four lions snore in stone at the corner of the shaft.
They too are the dream of a sculptor.
They too say: This way! this way!

— Carl Sandburg, Slants at Buffalo

October 1937. "Doorway. Des Lacs, North Dakota." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

San Francisco, 1927. "Hudson Super Six sedan at the DeYoung Museum." Latest addition to the Shorpy Aviary of Automotive Albatrosses. View full size.

September 1942. "Richwood, West Virginia. Young citizens." Medium format negative by John Collier for the Office of War Information. View full size.

December 1941. "Burning fallen leaves. New York City suburbs." Medium format negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Office of War Information. View full size.

June 1935. "Migrant agricultural workers in California. Motherless migrant children. They work in the cotton." Medium format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

New York circa 1901. "The Little Church Around the Corner (Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration, East 29th Street)." This Neo-Gothic confection, whipped up in 1849 and frosted with various architectural embellishments over the next 60 years, still stands as a sort of English country garden urban oasis. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

1902. "Public square -- Portsmouth, New Hampshire." Try our free filling station! 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

January 1943. "Washington, D.C. After dinner a bridge game goes on nightly in the largest room in the boardinghouse." Medium format nitrate negative by Esther Bubley for the Office of War Information. View full size.