Ecorse, Michigan, circa 1905. "Gantry crane, Great Lakes Engineering Works." 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

San Francisco circa 1920. "Studebaker Big Six town car." In what must be one of the city's tonier districts. 5x7 glass negative by Christopher Helin. View full size.

May 1941. San Diego. "Family living at Kearney Mesa defense housing project. This man came to California from Oklahoma 10 years ago. He has been an agricultural worker living in various FSA camps. Now employed as a painter at Consolidated Aircraft." Acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

This uncaptioned photo from the Library of Congress archive has no date or attribution, although various clues (including the neighboring frames) point to it being taken in 1938 by Sheldon Dick, somewhere in the East. View full size.

1938. "New York, New York. Children on First Avenue." Medium format negative by Sheldon Dick for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

San Francisco City Hall on March 14, 1965. I was with friends to take in the St. Patrick's Day Parade and we apparently tooled around beforehand, giving me an opportunity to take this Kodachrome slide with its smattering of cars, some of them already classics. Back in 1956, Chryslers of that year with their big, luscious tail lights had been among my favorites, and here we have two of them. Among the others, an old bathtub Lincoln, a later-model Thunderbird and a smidgen of a Corvair. If you want to park here now, forget it. Later on at the parade, I took this shot featuring another car, and also a governor. View full size.

July 1941. "Twenty-mule-team-drawn combine. Walla Walla County, Washington. This outfit gets to work at 6 in the morning. Knocks off at 11 for rest, food and water for mules and men, goes back to work at 1 and works till 6." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

June 1941. "Farm worker's wife teaches her baby girl to walk at the FSA labor camp. Caldwell, Idaho." Medium format negative by Russell Lee. View full size.

1939. "New York, New York. Corner of First Avenue and East 62nd Street." Current location of the Ritz Diner. Photo by Sheldon Dick. View full size.

1938. "New York, New York. East 63rd Street apartments." Medium format negative by Sheldon Dick for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

1938. "New York, New York. John Montefiori's sister-in-law in her kitchen at 340 East 63rd Street. Mr. Montefiori, tenant and janitor of the building, works in a sculpture factory that turns out the little white horses for White Horse Whisky, etc." Medium format acetate negative by Sheldon Dick. View full size.

1938. "New York, New York. A boy sleeping at his home on East 62nd (or 63rd) Street." Medium format acetate negative by Sheldon Dick. View full size.

New York, 1938. "East 62nd Street." Medium format acetate negative by Sheldon Dick for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

New York, 1938. "Woman and girls at the back of an apartment house on East 63rd Street." Medium format negative by Sheldon Dick. View full size.

June 1941. "Family of Marine in their living room. They live in one of the units of the Navy defense housing project which is designed for Naval people, Marines and some civilian defense workers. San Diego, California." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.