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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.
Along the Mississippi River circa 1890. "Cotton on the levee at New Orleans." 5x7 inch glass negative by William Henry Jackson. View full size.
New Orleans circa 1890. "St. Charles Hotel from Canal Street." 5x7 inch glass negative by William Henry Jackson. View full size.
1890s. "The French Quarter, New Orleans." Its carbon arc lamps lighting the way to an electrified future. Glass negative by William Henry Jackson. View full size.
December 1941. "Corozal, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Priest who conducted a Mass and baptism and blessing of the houses at the tenant purchase celebration." Acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
December 1941. "Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands. Along the main street." Medium format negative by Jack Delano. View full size.
Along Florida's Indian River circa 1890. "Wood landing in Jupiter Narrows." 5x7 inch glass negative by William Henry Jackson. View full size.
New Orleans circa 1897. "Street in the French Quarter." At left, the portrait studio of photographer Louis Interguglielmi, 227 Royal Street. 5x7 inch glass negative by William Henry Jackson, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.