Atlantic City, New Jersey, circa 1905. "Beach bathers and Steel Pier." And a girl we'll call Sandy. 5x7 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

March 1940. Brattleboro, Vermont. "Corner of Main Street, center of town after blizzard." Acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

November 1939. "Hog killing on Milton Puryear place. He is a Negro owner of five acres of land. Rural Route No. 1, Box 59, Dennison, Halifax County, Virginia. This is six miles south (on Highway No. 501) of South Boston. He used to grow tobacco and cotton but now just a subsistence living. These hogs belong to a neighbor landowner. He burns old shoes and pieces of leather near the heads of the slaughtered hogs while they are hanging to keep the flies away." Photo by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

May 1939. "Alabama. The poorer the land, the more frequently one sees religious signs along highways." Photo by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

March 1940. "Highway after blizzard. Brattleboro, Vermont." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

August 1956. Southampton, New York. "Teenage girl in record store." Medium format negative from photos for the Look magazine assignment "The Young Have New Ideas: They're the Disc Diggers." Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Collection. View full size.

November 12, 1942. "Jap radio tuned in on U.S. -- Marine communicators found this radio set which was left behind by the Japs on Guadalcanal, and use it to listen in on U.S. broadcasts in their leisure time. The Marines are (left to right) Cpl. James Shadduck, Pvt. Alex N. Incinelli, Pvt. Robert Galer, Cpl. Sidney B. Land and Pvt. Arthur D. Roda, and part of their job is to see that the messages get through." New York World-Telegram & Sun newsphoto. View full size.

September 1939. "Ducktown, Tennessee. Train bringing copper ore out of mine. Fumes from smelting copper for sulfuric acid have destroyed all vegetation and eroded the land." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

Spring 1939. "General scene, main street. Greensboro, Greene County, Georgia." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

August 1940. "Daughter of John Yenser of Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania." Medium format negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

September 1940. "Sons of Mr. Britton, coal miner-farmer near Falls Creek, Pennsylvania, and member of Tri-County Farmers Co-op in Du Bois." Medium format negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

June 1939. Summerton, South Carolina. "FSA home supervisor assisting wife and daughter of Frederick Oliver, tenant purchase client, in canning with new pressure cooker." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

June 1939. "Community swimming pool at Greenbelt, Maryland." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

September 1939. "Ducktown, Tennessee. Fumes from smelting copper for sulfuric acid have destroyed all vegetation and eroded the land." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

Washington, D.C., 1923. "Inventor C. Francis Jenkins with most recent invention, radio camera with which it will be possible to send pictures by wireless. He hopes to be able to broadcast moving pictures of national events to distant cities immediately after they are photographed." The Jenkins Radio-Picture Transmitter with "prismatic rings." Click here for more electro-mechanical television photos. Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. View full size.