July 1941. "Stockyard workers during lunch hour. Chicago, Illinois." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

"Elizabeth Clapp (between January 1891 and January 1894)." 5x7 inch glass negative from the C.M. Bell portrait studio in Washington, D.C. View full size.

New York, 1939. "Radio City buildings (RCA Building and other Rockefeller Center buildings)." Click here for an alternate view. Gelatin silver print by Irving Underhill. View full size.

Washington, D.C. "U.S.J. Dunbar, 6/27/23." The sculptor Ulric Stonewall Jackson Dunbar and a model of the proposed "Mammy" monument. 5x7 inch glass negative. View full size.

        In 1923, a group of white women wanted to build what they called a "monument to the faithful colored mammies" in Washington. These women, members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, pressed lawmakers in Congress to introduce a bill ... [read more]

1920. "Pacific Highway through a Washington red cedar stump, 20 feet in diameter (man and automobile in tunnel of giant tree stump)." Photo by Darius Kinsey, Seattle. View full size.

1905. "Men posing with team of horses hauling giant spruce log 30 feet in circumference. Cascade Mountains, Washington." Gelatin silver print by Darius Kinsey. View full size.

Ca. 1932. "Woman holding a cigarette." Gelatin silver print by Wynn Richards. View full size.

July 1941. "Union Stockyards. Chicago, Illinois." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

        Kirk Douglas, one of the last surviving movie stars from Hollywood’s golden age, whose rugged good looks and muscular intensity made him a commanding presence in celebrated films like “Lust for Life,” “Spartacus” and “Paths of Glory,” died on Wednesday at his home in Beverly Hills. He was 103.

— New York Times

1950. "Actor Kirk Douglas, half-length portrait, seated in chair, on set during the filming of Ace in the Hole, New Mexico." 35mm color transparency by Charles and Ray Eames. View full size.

June 1941. Burns City, Indiana. "Office of land use committee and FSA office for relocation project in Martin County, where 160 farm families will be moved during construction of naval ammunition depot." Photo by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

July 1941. No caption here, "here" being somewhere in Chicago at 9:37. Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

July 1941. "Breaking eggs in egg breaking plant. Chicago, Illinois." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

June 1941. "Wife of defense worker washing clothes in utility building at FSA trailer camp. Erie, Pennsylvania." Photo by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

July 1941. "Union Stockyards, Chicago. Employees' parking lot in the foreground." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

November 1918. "Her sister had not seen Mrs. Brown for almost a week, and with Mr. Brown a soldier in France, she became so worried she telephoned the Red Cross Home Service, which arrived just in time to rescue Mrs. Brown from the clutches of influenza." American National Red Cross glass negative. View full size.