Ormond Beach, Florida, 1894. "The Ormond." At its peak, Henry Flagler's Hotel Ormond was reputed to be the largest wooden structure in the United States, with 400 rooms connected by 11 miles of corridors and breezeways. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative by William Henry Jackson. View full size.

November 1939. "Gas station in front of old colonial house (306 North State Street). Jackson, Mississippi Delta." The 777 Service Station, pumping Sinclair "H-C" gasoline. Acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.

Cleveland circa 1908. "The Public Square -- Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument. Panorama made from two 8x10 inch glass negatives. View full size.

September 1938. "Coal miners waiting for the bus to go home in Osage, West Virginia." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.

September 1938. "Section of coal mining town near Welch, West Virginia." Possibly the mountain hamlet of Eckman. Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

San Francisco, 1928. "Hudson Super Six Landau Sedan at Golden Gate Park." No. 1 with a bullet on the Shorpy Chart of Chic Chassis. 5x7 inch dry plate glass negative by Christopher Helin. View full size.

        The Solomon Siler House in Pike County, Alabama.

May 1939. "Old home in Alabama built about 1850 called 'Silver Place,' owned by Mr. Frazier, now rented by two families." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

May 1939. "Signboard along highway in Alabama." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott; Buick ad by Montgomery Melbourne. View full size.

November 1940. Ansonia, Connecticut. "Taking a temperature reading in the foundry at the Farrell-Birmingham Corporation." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

May 1939. "Negro domestic servant. Atlanta, Georgia." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

New York circa 1948. "Interior decorator Ruby Ross Wood (1881-1950), three-quarter length portrait, seated, at desk." Conway Studios photo. View full size.

May 1939. "Old abandoned plantation home near Monticello, South Carolina." Photo by Marion Post Wolcott, Farm Security Administration. View full size.

September 13, 1950. "Pendulum pounding into a plastic helmet worn for testing by Dr. Charles F. Lombard, director of the University of Southern California Department of Aviation Physiology. Testing is part of a program being worked out to improve equipment, especially headgear for football players, to cut down fatalities and injuries among gridders." Acme Newsphoto. View full size.

October 1957. "Mascots at football game between Colgate 'Red Raiders' and Cornell 'Big Red' university teams." 35mm Kodachrome. View full size.

1891. "Camp Badger, Tulare County, California. End of Mark Twain log, diameter 18 feet. Slab of Giant Sequoia, Kings River Grove (now part of Kings Canyon National Park), California, felled in 1891, to be exhibited in the Natural History Museum in New York." Albumen print by Charles Clifford Curtis. View full size.