Lake Erie circa 1901. "Ore docks and harbor -- Cleveland, O." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

November 1936. "Squatter camp on the flat where families live during the orange picking season near Porterville. Part of migrant family of five, native Californians, waiting for work in the groves." Photo by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

March 1940. "Basque sheepherder camped on the range. Dangberg Ranch, Douglas County, Nevada." Photo by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

Richmond, Virginia, circa 1905. "Ladies Hollywood Memorial Association -- Monument to Confederate dead, Hollywood Cemetery." 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size.

July 1936. "One of the largest sawmills in the world. Employs many of the Resettlement Administration homesteaders at Longview, Cowlitz County, Washington." Medium format negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.

Circa 1900. "Ormond, Florida. Princess Issena at Tomoka landing." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

1912: My father (right) and his younger brother pose for a traveling photographer outside their home in Santa Rosa, California. 1985: 73 years later, they reenact the photo for my sister in our yard in Larkspur on May 25, 1985. This was the last time they were together; my father passed away six months later, and my uncle in 1988. View full size.

Calumet, Michigan, circa 1906. "Copper mining. Hoisting engine, Tamarack No. 5 Shaft." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

San Francisco circa 1924. "Hudson Super Six touring car at Spreckels Mansion." Plucked from the Shorpy Pantheon of Pharaonic Phaetons. Our title comes from the slogan on the car's gigantic Miller Cord tires. 5x7 glass negative by Christopher Helin. View full size.

Circa 1908. "Main Street, Mackinac Island, Michigan." No motor traffic allowed, but postcards and dentists galore. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

New York circa 1905. "Newspaper Row -- City Hall Park." Headliners include the Tribune, Times and domed New York World (Pulitzer) buildings. 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size.

New York circa 1906. "42nd Street at Park Avenue, looking west." With Grand Central Station at right and the Hotel Manhattan center stage. 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size.

Previously in Calpella, my brother was being artistic, while back home I was waiting to be born a few days later. Three years have gone by and now he's back at our grandparents' home, minus one appendix and plus one little brother. Needless to say, we're not the musical Hudsons, nor are we related to Henry, but we did come hither via the family car back there, a 1948 Hudson Super Six. This was the same day I didn't fall in the well. Photo by my sister, scanned from the original "120" negative. View full size.

March 1940. "New England housewife fixing supper on a winter night. Woodstock, Vermont." Photo by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

        Meanwhile, back in the White Mountains, "Birthplace of American Skiing" --

March 1940. "Skiers from Boston relaxing in lodge at North Conway, New Hampshire." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.