November 1938. "Omaha, Nebraska." A bird's-eye view of, among other attractions, Tri-City Barber College. Photo by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

September 1940. "Narrow gauge railway yards, train and water tank at Telluride, Colorado." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

"Newsboy, 1913. No caption card found. Date based on captions for neighboring numbers. 'Pittsburg' may be in text at top of newspaper on ground, but neighboring newsboy photos taken in New York. Headline appears to be 'Judges Avert Probe and Save Blakeley'." Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine for the National Child Labor Committee. View full size.

June 1956. "Women modeling fall and winter clothing at Lever House, New York." Medium format color transparency from photos by Gleb Derujinsky for the Look magazine assignment "Shape of Things to Come." View full size.

        Gloria Vanderbilt, the society heiress who stitched her illustrious family name into designer jeans and built a $100 million fashion empire, crowning her tabloid story of a child-custody fight, of broken marriages and of jet-set romances, died on Monday at her home in Manhattan. She was 95.

— New York Times

January 1955. "Socialite Gloria Vanderbilt in her New York City apartment with Stanislas and Christopher, her sons by conductor husband Leopold Stokowski." Color transparency from photos for the Look magazine assignment "Gloria Vanderbilt Builds a New Life." View full size.

Boston circa 1906. "Old State House front from Court Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

"Unknown woman in nurse's uniform -- between 1873 and ca. 1916." 5x7 inch glass negative from the C.M. Bell portrait studio in Washington, D.C. View full size.

Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1906. "Old State House from Washington Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

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.