New York circa 1911. "Girls' High School, Nostrand Avenue and Macon Street, Brooklyn." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Gloucester, Massachusetts, circa 1905. "Cod -- weighing the catch." 5x7 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

July 1941. "Home supervisor, while making home visit to FSA borrower, inspects water supply for repair. Charles County near La Plata, Maryland." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

July 1941. "Boy Scouts inspecting and learning about Army equipment in Commerce Square, Washington, D.C." Acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.

June 1941. "Freight depot in Hartford, Connecticut." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

July 1941. "Bridge from Hartford to East Hartford, Connecticut." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

December 1941. "Christiansted, Saint Croix, Virgin Islands. The laundry at the Christiansted hospital. Here all the linen for the hospital is washed." Photo by Jack Delano. View full size.

1938. "New York, New York. A scene on East 62nd Street." Showing the vans of New York Linen Supply, seen here earlier, and a gasometer, or gas holder, from the era of "city gas." Acetate negative by Sheldon Dick for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

April 1941. "South Side Chicago. Telephone booth in Negro tavern." The Bronzeville watering hole known as Tony's Tavern. Acetate negative by Russell Lee. View full size.

November 1940. "Dead leaves in the fall. Marysville, California." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

December 1940. "Mrs. Richard Carter, poultry farmer of Middleboro, Massachusetts. She runs the business of one thousand poulets while her husband drives a bulldozer at an Army camp nearby." Acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

January 1941. "Railroad cars and factory buildings in Lawrence, Massachusetts." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

1938. "New York. East 62nd Street." Acetate negative by Sheldon Dick. View full size.

January 17, 1941. "On a foggy night in New Bedford, Massachusetts." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

January 1941. "A large textile mill in Lawrence, Massachusetts." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.