Philadelphia circa 1906. "Academy of Natural Sciences, Race Street at Logan Square." 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

New Orleans circa 1910. "Terminal Station, Canal Street." Demolished in 1956. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

December 1941. "Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas Island, Virgin Islands. A colored doll in one of the houses in a slum area." Photo by Jack Delano. View full size.

December 1941. "Rio Piedras (vicinity), Puerto Rico. Family of a FSA borrower." Photo by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

December 1941. San Juan, Puerto Rico. "Women in the needlework factory." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano. View full size.

January 1942. "Arecibo, Puerto Rico. A row of station wagons or 'publicos' waiting for loads and passengers." Acetate negative by Jack Delano. View full size.

January 1941. "The family of Peter V. Andrews, Portuguese. FSA clients. They run a small seven-acre vegetable farm near Falmouth, Massachusetts. Just got the first cow they ever had, of which they are very proud. Mr. Andrews works as a day laborer at a nearby Army camp." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

San Francisco circa 1916. "Velie Six touring car at Golden Gate Park." Filed under "V" in the Shorpy Abecedarium of Antiquated Automobiles. 5x7 glass negative by Christopher Helin. View full size.

1940. "Farm family having Fourth of July fish fry along the Cane River near Natchitoches, Louisiana." Photo by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.

Trying to get the Li'l Cornhusker to sleep. Pawnee City, Nebraska, circa 1910 or earlier. Scanned from a 4x5 inch glass negative. View full size.

September 1941. "Two of the Gaynor boys walking to school near Fairfield, Vermont." Medium format negative by Jack Delano. View full size.

The "Li'l Cornhusker" seen here earlier seems finally ready to sleep, in the company of the family dog. A 4x5 glass negative from Pawnee City, Nebraska, circa 1910 or earlier. View full size.

September 1941. "Enosburg Falls, Vermont. Shopping on a Saturday afternoon." Photo by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

This room from well over a hundred years ago in Pawnee City, Nebraska, looks to have been the personal space of a boy or teenager. It's filled with weird little items a teenage boy might have found worth collecting. A handwritten sign on the wall says "WHO ENTERS HERE - LEAVE HOPE BEHIND". A large Punch and Judy puppet is mounted on a chair with a warning not to handle it. Playing cards decorate the walls. The scrawled message on the heating stove says "Sacred to the Memory of a Fireman - He has gone to his last fire". An American flag covers the ceiling. Browse around the room and see what you can find. It's his own private museum, the Voynich Manuscript of Victorian living space! Scanned from a 4x5 glass negative. View full size.

Richmond, Va., circa 1900. "St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Ninth & Grace Streets." The so-called "Cathedral of the Confederacy," attended by Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis. 8x10 glass negative by William Henry Jackson. View full size.