September 1939. "Combination filling station, garage, blacksmith shop, grocery store. Frank Petty, owner of the wagon, has just had his mule shod, his corn ground, purchased some kerosene and is returning home. R.F.D. Danville, Pittsylvania County, Virginia." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

November 1939. "Old house in Holmes County, Mississippi." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

November 1939. Greenville, Mississippi. "In the Mississippi Delta, there is an ever-increasing number of Chinese grocerymen and merchants." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

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Featured image: Home Entertainment, 1943.

August 1941. "Having dinner at the home of Ray Lyman, FSA client near Castleton, Vermont." Medium format negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

December 1940. "Camp Livingston, Alexandria, Louisiana. Construction workers from Monroe sitting on car in front of their shacks before leaving for evening shift." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

May 1939. Washington, D.C. "Alleyway [Zei Alley] between H, I, 14th and 15th streets N.W." Medium format acetate negative, photographer unknown. View full size.

May 1943. "Baltimore, Maryland. Building the SS Frederick Douglass. More than 6,000 Negro shipyard workers are employed at the Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, where this Liberty ship is being rushed to completion. Douglass, the noted orator and abolitionist leader, worked as a ship caulker in the vicinity of this yard before he escaped from slavery. Smiling from porthole of the dockhouse is rivet heater Willie Smith." 4x5 inch nitrate negative by Roger Smith for the Office of War Information. View full size.

July 1938. "Russian Orthodox Church. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania." Medium format negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

June 1942. Washington, D.C. "Frederick Douglass housing project in Anacostia. Playing in the community sprayer." Photo by Gordon Parks for the Office of War Information. View full size.

Amherst, Massachusetts, circa 1906. "Psi Upsilon House, Amherst College." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Hampden County, Massachusetts, circa 1908. "Holyoke City Hall, High and Dwight Streets." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Savannah, Georgia, circa 1910. "DeSoto Hotel and Jasper monument, Madison Square." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Circa 1910. "Steamer Cabrillo at dock, probably in Southern California." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

December 1940. "John H. Poole Jr. cooking while sitting on side of car. He is a carpenter on construction job at Camp Livingston. He comes from Monroe, Louisiana, where he has an electrical shop." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.