New York circa 1906. "Custom House and Bowling Green." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

New York circa 1906. "Manhattan Opera House, West 34th Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Lake Erie circa 1908. "Gordon Park bathing pavilion, Cleveland, Ohio." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

New York circa 1905. "U.S. Sub-Treasury (Federal Hall), Wall Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

St. Augustine, Florida, circa 1905. "In the court of the Hotel Ponce de Leon." Back at the Frog Fountain. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

New York circa 1905. "J.P. Morgan building, 23 Wall Street at Broad." The Drexel Building, eclipsed by its gilded tenant at the nexus of the financial universe. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

New York circa 1905. "Up Fifth Avenue from 28th Street." With a view of Marble Collegiate Church. 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. View full size.

St. Augustine, Florida, circa 1905. "In the court of the Hotel Ponce de Leon." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Virginia circa 1905. "The Great Crane, Norfolk Navy Yard." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Richmond, Virginia, circa 1905. "Broad Street -- Murphy's Hotel." Last seen here. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

The Maine shore circa 1900. "The beach at Old Orchard -- Hotel Velvet and Ocean Pier." The roof of whose "Big Casino" urges us to "Eat Velvet, Drink Moxie." Panorama made from three 8x10 glass negatives. View full size.

May 1952. Kodachrome by my great-uncle Herbert F. Krahn of Oshkosh, Wisconsin. I have no idea who any of the people are in this image, but I assume that someone on the plane flew into Oshkosh to visit Herbert and my great-aunt. Note that the pilot appears to be waving from the cockpit. View full size.

New Orleans circa 1900. "The City from Algiers." At left, the centerwheeler ferry Thomas Pickles. Panorama made from two 8x10 glass negatives. View full size.

San Francisco, 1947. "International Harvester tractor, front view." Today's entry in the Shorpy Treasury of Triassic Trucks. 8x10 Ansco film negative. View full size.

May 1940. "One of the oldest residential buildings in Phoenix, Arizona." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Admin. View full size.