May 1940. "Main street of Bisbee, Arizona. Copper mining center." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

October 1939. "A stumpy valley where new farms are being established. Photos show character of land which settlers are buying -- stump land farmers making a new start in the Priest River Valley, Idaho." Medium format acetate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

July 1939. "Migrant boy who is somewhat of a mechanic tightening the rear wheel on truck which will carry his family [that of of tenant farmer Elmer Thomas] to California from Muskogee, Oklahoma." Photo by Russell Lee. View full size.

July 1939. "En route to California. Pouring water into radiator of migrants' car in the streets of Muskogee, Oklahoma, where the Elmer Thomas family has stopped to say goodbye to their friends in that town." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

July 1941. "Ninth Street amusements, Washington, D.C." Medium format acetate negative by Martha McMillan Roberts for the FSA. View full size.

May 1956. Memphis, Tennessee. "Elvis Presley at home with his mother, Gladys." 35mm negative from photos by Philip Harrington for the Look magazine assignment "Elvis Presley -- He Can't Be, but He Is." View full size.

July 1941. "Adding new storage space to wheat elevator at Dayton, Washington. High yields of wheat this year were taxing storage facilities; they were getting ready for a bumper crop." Acetate negative by Russell Lee. View full size.

June 1941. "The cat drinks foamy, fresh milk. Dairymen's Cooperative Creamery. Caldwell, Canyon County, Idaho." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

My mother, far left, with some of her young and attractive co-workers from Salem Gas & Electric posing for the New England Electric System magazine cover in the early spring of 1951. The photo shoot took place on King's Beach in Swampscott, Massachusetts. Enjoying ideal beach weather are Phyllis Collins (Salem Gas), Betty Konopnicki (Salem Electric) and Lil Bouchard (Salem Gas). View full size.

July 1941. "Kids' tug-of-war at the Fourth of July celebration at Vale, Oregon." Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

July 1941. "Spectators at kids' contests at the Fourth of July celebration in Vale, Oregon." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee. View full size.

December 1940. "San Diego, California. Workers' automobiles parked near the airplane factories. Providing parking space for automobiles and getting the cars in and out at shift changing time have been big problems." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

November 1939. "Truck with bales of cotton from Hopson Planting Company gin going up highway to warehouse near Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta." Photo by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

June 1941. "Transient workers. Boxing platform at FSA migratory farm labor camp mobile unit. Athena, Oregon." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

Actually my aunt, Shirley Archer, daughter of Ralph E. and Mildred M. Archer, owners of the Archer Camera Shop in Titusville, Pennsylvania, seen here earlier. Scan from an early kodachrome stereo slide taken by her father circa 1945-47 in their apartment above the camera store. View full size.