Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1906. "Tremont Street looking south -- King's Chapel and Tremont Temple." 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

August 1940. "Highway outside Natchez, Mississippi. Negro women carrying bundles of laundry and boxes on their heads." Acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.

July 1940. "Cabins imitating the Indian teepee for tourists along highway south of Bardstown, Kentucky." Composite of two photos by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.

August 1940. "One-room school in Breathitt County, Kentucky." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

1912. "New York south from Metropolitan Tower." Irving Underhill photo. View full size.

This image was found in a stash of circa 1910 glass negatives from Floyd Ingraham, who lived in Springwater, New York. I know nothing about who's here or why they were gathered in someone's parlor, but I love its Norman Rockwell vibe. Every face looks like one of his subjects. Scanned from a 4x5 inch glass plate. View full size.

November 20, 1912. "Woolworth Building, New York." Irving Underhill photo. View full size.

1961. Mount Clemens, Michigan. "Mount Clemens Savings and Loan. Meathe, Kessler & Associates, architects." Medium format negative by Balthazar Korab. View full size.

New York, 1936. "Beauty & fitness expert Sylvia Ulback, Madame Sylvia of Hollywood, posing with duckpins shaped like penguins." Photo by Ray Lee Jackson, NBC Studio. View full size.

June 8, 1968. "Funeral cortege of Robert F. Kennedy." Mourners viewing RFK's funeral train as it made its way from New York to Washington after his assassination. 35mm Kodachrome from photos by Paul Fusco and Thomas Koeniges for Look magazine. View full size.

May 1942. "Philadelphia Quartermaster Corps. The tradition of Betsy Ross is being kept alive in this Quartermaster Corps depot, where a young woman worker assists in the creation of American flags for military activities." Happy Flag Day from Shorpy! 4x5 inch acetate negative by Howard Liberman for the Office of War Information. View full size.

June 1940. "Buying dress goods in project cooperative store. Transylvania Resettlement Project, Louisiana." Medium acetate format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

June 1940. Schriever, Louisiana. "Cajun children on Terrebonne Farms Project." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

June 1940. "Some of the younger Osceola migratory camp members who have come to the post office in Belle Glade, Florida, for their mail." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

Los Angeles, 1955. "Comedians George Burns and Gracie Allen." Color trans­parency for the Look magazine assignment "Fall TV Preview." View full size.