Circa 1905. "Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Boston, Massachusetts." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

March 1937. "6:45 a.m. -- One of nine children, son of hired man Tip Estes washing his face after doing his early-morning chores. Near Fowler, Indiana." Photo by Russell Lee for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.

March 1937. "Children of migratory carrot pullers, Mexicans. Imperial Valley, California." Medium format negative by Dorothea Lange. View full size.

San Francisco circa 1921. "Chalmers Six touring car." Fitted with a reptilian custom top. 5x7 glass negative by Christopher Helin. View full size.

Boston circa 1900. "Hotel Vendome, Dartmouth Street and Commonwealth Avenue." 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

November 1942. "Utah Copper -- Bingham Mine. Brakeman of an ore train at the open-pit mining operations of Utah Copper Company at Bingham Canyon, Utah." Photo by Andreas Feininger for the Office of War Information. View full size.

August 1937. "Automobile convoys at Amity Hall, Pennsylvania. Truckers' facilities are, according to the drivers, model accommodations and of a kind not found elsewhere." Photo by Edwin Locke, Farm Security Administration. View full size.

New York, 1903. "Cadet Armory, 9th Regiment Coast Artillery, West 14th Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

October 1938. North Platte, Nebraska. "Manager of the Alamo bar, and Mildred Irwin, entertainer." The saloon singer last seen here. Medium format negative by John Vachon for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.

November 1938. "Houses along the railroad tracks. Omaha, Nebraska." Photo by John Vachon for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.

June 1936. " 'Griffin children' of Alabama land use demonstration project near Greensboro. They are all third or fourth generation resulting from, it is believed, a white woman and a Negro. They are mostly white and refused to be placed with the Negroes, but the whites will not have them. Note carefully the closeup of the four children; all are from the same family and yet differ greatly in appearance." Photo by Carl Mydans for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.

        "Perhaps the greatest charm of tramp-life is the absence of monotony. In Hobo Land the face of life is protean -- an ever-changing phantasmagoria, where the impossible happens and the unexpected jumps out of the bushes at every turn of the road."

-- Jack London, The Road

November 1938. "Lower Douglas Street, Omaha, is one of the hobo centers of the West." 35mm nitrate negative by John Vachon. View full size.

November 1938. "Nebraska Power Company, Omaha." Medium format negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

Spotsylvania County, Virginia, circa 1937. "St. Julien Plantation porch. Main house built 1794 with addition ca. 1812." 8x10 acetate negative by Frances Benjamin Johnston, Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South. View full size.

        Saxon, the seventh largest American car maker in 1917, went wheels-up in 1922.

San Francisco, 1919. "Saxon touring car at boatyard." Today's entry on the Shorpy Roster of Musty Marques. 5x7 glass negative by Chris Helin. View full size.