Columbus, Georgia, circa 1960. "Holiday Inn." In the Garden Spot of the South. 4x5 inch acetate negative from the Shorpy News Photo Archive. View full size.

Columbus, Georgia, 1953. "Kayser-Lilienthal window display." Tied to the fall issue of Glamour and its focus on "The Girl With a Job," who if she was really kicking it as a career woman might be working as a switchboard operator or even a secretary. 4x5 inch acetate negative from the Shorpy News Photo Archive. View full size.

May 1942. "Southington, Connecticut. A girl." Medium format nitrate negative by Fenno Jacobs for the Office of War Information. View full size.

Circa 1896. "Cocoanut grove at McCormick's, Lake Worth, Florida." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

August 1943. Southfields, New York. "Interracial activities at Camp Nathan Hale, where children are aided by the Methodist Camp Service. Comic papers are very popular during the campers' free periods." Medium format nitrate negative by Gordon Parks for the Office of War Information. View full size.

From Columbus, Georgia, circa 1957 comes this uncaptioned shot of two guys about to go somewhere. Cola? Check. Bedroll? Ditto. Daddy's Roadmaster? All gassed up. 4x5 inch acetate negative from the Shorpy News Photo Archive. View full size.

The Jersey Shore circa 1900. "The beach at Long Branch." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

San Francisco circa 1919. "Velie Six touring car at Phelan mansion, Washington Street." Latest entry in the Shorpy Baedeker of Brobdingnagian Barouches. 5x7 inch glass negative by Christopher Helin. View full size.

The Jersey Shore circa 1901. "Driveway and beach at Long Branch." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Circa 1900. "Ormond, Florida. Princess Issena at Tomoka landing." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

August 1908. "A group of Young Fellows working in an Indianapolis Tomato Cannery." Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size.

May 1930. Washington, D.C. "American Road Builders Association -- earth-moving shovel." Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1932. "Shoreham Hotel from across Calvert Street." 8x10 inch acetate negative by Theodor Horydczak. View full size.

Circa 1894. "Fritz Reuter." The Washington, D.C., hotelier and his children Fritz and Gertrude. 5x7 glass negative by the C.M. Bell portrait studio. View full size.

Pittsburgh circa 1910. "Schenley Park Bridge and the 'Tick' (Carnegie-Mellon University)." A continuation of this image. Note loop-the-loop in the park at right. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative. View full size.