July 1941. "Ride at the carnival which was part of the Fourth of July celebration at Vale, Oregon." Medium format negative by Russell Lee. View full size.

A Kodachrome slide sent to us from Canada a few years back with the caption "Piccadilly Circus, London, 1961." We loved "The Music Man" but somehow missed seeing "The Amorous Prawn." View full size.

May 30, 1940. "John C.B. Moore residence in Pound Ridge, Westchester County, N.Y. Rear facade. Moore & Hutchins, architect." Neighbor to Bertram Willcox, whose house he also designed. Gottscho-Schleisner photo. View full size.

Here I am in 1957 with my mother in a photo booth. Have a seat, close the curtain, drop a quarter in the slot and you get four consecutive photographs automatically. I don't know where this booth was. Perhaps at a Woolworth's? The image printed directly onto specially-treated paper that went through a chemical bath. No film or negatives existed. And no intimidating photographer. The photo-booth pictures I have are good quality considering how they were made, with no apparent fading. My guess is that the booths must have required frequent maintenance. View full size.

October 1938. "Icing soft drink refrigerator in general store of the Lake Dick cooperation association, a Farm Security Administration project near Altheimer, Arkansas." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the FSA. View full size.

August 1940. "Tourist house in Truro, Massachusetts. The girl at the easel is a boarder. House belongs to incapacitated Portuguese fisherman and railroad worker from the Cape Verde Islands. He and his wife now make most of their income from boarding tourists in their lovely house during the short three-month season." Medium format negative by Edwin Rosskam. View full size.

November 8, 1912. Wyandotte, Michigan. "Steamer Seeandbee on the ways, broadside." The Great Lakes sidewheeler, built for the Cleveland & Buffalo Transit Co., the day before its launch at the Detroit Ship Building yards. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

October 1939. "Farmers' supply co-op. Nyssa, Malheur County, Oregon." Photo by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

August 1940. Truro, Massachusetts. "Guests in bedroom of tourist house having a glass of whisky." Medium format negative by Edwin Rosskam. View full size.

July 1938. "Gashouse and graveyard. Dover, Delaware." Medium format negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

June 1936. "Apple monument at depot of Cornelia, Georgia." Medium format negative by Carl Mydans for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

March 1943. "Safe clothes for women war workers. Estelle Hendel, twenty-eight, a guard at the Bendix Aviation Plant in Brooklyn, New York, stands before the company service flag and gives the correct salute." 4x5 inch nitrate negative by Ann Rosener for the Office of War Information. View full size.

March 1939. "Signs in front of highway tavern. Crystal City, Texas." And, somewhere back there amid the signage, a gas station. Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

Denver c. 1910. "Daniels & Fisher Stores Co., 16th and Arapahoe." View full size.

Despatch, New York, circa 1906. "Merchants' Despatch Transportation Co." The right-hand section of a larger panorama of the New York Central rail hub now known as East Rochester. 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size.