Circa 1898. "Dr. Beall 'old fashioned toilet seat'." No. 2 (so to speak) in a series. 5x7 glass negative from the C.M. Bell portrait studio in Washington. View full size.

Circa 1898. "Dr. Beall 'old-fashioned chair'." 5x7 inch glass negative from the C.M. Bell portrait studio in Washington, D.C. View full size.

Circa 1873-1890. "Unidentified woman with bonnet." 5x7 glass negative from the C.M. Bell portrait studio in Washington, D.C. View full size.

Circa 1911. "Main Street, Buffalo, N.Y." Our idiosyncratically spelled title comes from the marquee at the Hippodrome. Now playing: The Revenue Man and the Girl. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Tennessee circa 1902. "Chattanooga and Missionary Ridge from Cameron Hill." 8x10 inch glass negative by William Henry Jackson. View full size.

"Unidentified women, between 1873 and circa 1916." 5x7 inch glass negative from the C.M. Bell portrait studio in Washington, D.C. View full size.

October 1942. "Riveter at work at the Douglas Aircraft plant in Long Beach, California." Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer. View full size.

San Francisco circa 1922. "Gardner touring car." Latest entry on the Shorpy Manifest of Musty Marques. 5x7 glass negative by Chris Helin. View full size.

        Our second visit with this family, with ten of their eleven children, now ready for their close-up.

February 1939. Brawley, Imperial County, California. "In Farm Security Administration migratory labor camp. Family of mother, father and eleven children, originally from near Mangrum, Oklahoma, where he had been tenant farmer. Came to California in 1936 after the drought. Since then has been traveling from crop to crop in California, following the harvest. Six of the eleven children attend school wherever the family stops long enough. Five older children work along with the father and mother. February 23, two of the family have been lucky and 'got a place' (a day's work) in peas on the Sinclair ranch. Father had earned about $1.73 for ten-hour day. Oldest daughter had earned $1.25. From these earnings they had to provide their transportation to the fields 20 miles away. Mother wants to return to Oklahoma, father unwilling." Photo by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

February 1939. Brawley, Imperial County, California. "In Farm Security Administration migrant labor camp during pea harvest. Family from Oklahoma with eleven children. Father, eldest daughter and eldest son working. She: 'I want to go back to where we can live happy, live decent, and grow what we eat.' He: 'I've made my mistake and now we can't go back. I've got nothing to farm with'." Photo by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

October 1939. "He brought his family to the West in a homemade trailer from Texas five months ago. Photograph made after supper. Boy sick. Father has work now in potato field. Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon. In mobile unit, FSA camp." Photo by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

August 1940. "Street scenes. Port Gibson, Mississippi." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.

August 1940. "Extremely tall and excellent corn is also grown on the King and Anderson cotton plantation near Clarksdale. Mississippi Delta, Mississippi." Here we see an early attempt at portable "personal corn." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.

        Back to the days of the blacksmith: The only tools seen here are two hammers, a wrench and a broom.

December 1942. "Working on a locomotive at the 40th Street Shops, Chicago & North Western R.R." Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano. View full size.

"Lansburgh children, between February 1894 and February 1901." 5x7 glass negative from the C.M. Bell portrait studio in Washington, D.C. View full size.