September 1938. "Children of Greenbelt, Maryland, family buying groceries in cooperative store." Acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.

February 19, 1958. "Mrs. J.V. Reed residence in Hobe Sound, Florida. Guest house. William Kemp Kaler, architect; Innocenti & Webel, landscape architect." 4x5 inch acetate negative by Gottscho-Schleisner. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1861. "Guards at ferry landing on Mason's Island examining a pass." Wet plate glass negative by George N. Barnard. View full size.

September 1938. "Children buying groceries in co-op store. Greenbelt, Maryland." Medium format negative by Marion Post Woolcott. View full size.

June 1941. "Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Getting a haircut at Camp Shelby." Medium format acetate negative by William Perlitch. View full size.

September 1938. "Coal mining town of Welch [i.e., Eckman], in the Bluefield section of West Virginia." Photo by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.

May 1862. "Yorktown, Va. (vicinity). The Peninsular Campaign -- Camp Winfield Scott. Duc de Chartres, Comte de Paris, Prince de Joinville and friends playing dominoes at mess table." Wet plate negative by James F. Gibson. View full size.

March 1909. Hartford, Connecticut. "9:30 P.M. A common case of 'team work.' Smaller boy (Joseph Bishop) goes into saloon and sells his last papers. Then comes out and his brother gives him more. Joseph said, 'Drunks are me best customers. I sell more'n me brudder does. Dey buy me out so I kin go home.' He sells every afternoon and night. Extra late Saturday. At it again at 6 A.M. Sunday." Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine for the National Child Labor Committee. View full size.

March 1862. "Centreville, Virginia. Stone church. [Photo shows the Old Stone Church as it appeared between the two battles at Bull Run.]" Wet plate glass negative by the Civil War photographer George N. Barnard. View full size.

During the 1950s it was common to pose for a photo with your new car. This 3-D slide shows a young man with his new 1955 Ford. View full size.

February 20, 1958. "Dimitri Yassukovich residence in Hobe Sound, Florida. Entrance facade, from left. William Kemp Kaler, architect; Innocenti & Webel, landscape architect." 4x5 acetate negative by Gottscho-Schleisner. View full size.

March 1943. "New Orleans, Louisiana. Loading a rubber raft onto a truck at the terminal of Associated Transport Company." Medium format negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.

January 13, 1940. "Charles S. Payson residence in Hobe Sound, Florida. Entrance facade, horizontal, windows closed. Beatrice Stewart Inc., decorator. Treanor & Fatio, architect." 5x7 acetate negative by Gottscho-Schleisner. View full size.

August 1938. "Girl fieldworkers at the King Farm on strike against 17-cents-an-hour wages. Morrisville, Pennsylvania." Medium format negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

Circa 1890. "Street in New Orleans near Cathedral of St. Louis." 5x7 inch glass negative by William Henry Jackson. View full size.