November 1938. "Saloon in stockyards district. South Omaha, Nebraska." Photo by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

Detroit circa 1900. "Down Woodward Avenue from Peterboro Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

1905. "Yates Hotel, Syracuse, N.Y." Opened in 1892 and demolished in 1971, "the most elegant hotel outside Manhattan" is now a parking lot. View full size.

Circa 1905. "Upper Genesee Falls, Rochester, N.Y." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

1938. "Traveller's Rest, Louisburg vicinity, Franklin County, North Carolina. Farm of A.T. Wilson; a roadside guest house." 8x10 inch acetate negative by Frances Benjamin Johnston. View full size.

        "May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view."

-- Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire

1904. "Navajo riders in Canyon de Chelly, Arizona." Gelatin silver print by the ethnologist Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952). View full size.

Harbor Springs, Michigan, circa 1906. "A flowing well in Wequetonsing." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Puerto Rico circa 1903. "La Marina -- San Juan, P.R." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

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

New York circa 1903. "Manhattan from under the Brooklyn Bridge." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Circa 1905. "New Harrison Building, South High Street, Columbus, O." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

"Noon, June 10, 1909. Parker Mill in Warren, Rhode Island. I saw these and nearly a dozen youngsters who looked to be under 14 at work there that A.M. when I went through the mill as a visitor." Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size.

Circa 1906. "A Fifth Avenue stage, New York." Where even the horses have hats. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Detroit circa 1903. "Swimming pool at Belle Isle Park." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Circa 1902. "Main Street -- Dayton, O." No. 2 with a broom. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.