New York circa 1915. "Mme. De Luza aboard ship." Ready for some serious relaxing. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. View full size.

Circa 1897. "U.S.S. Massachusetts, fire room." Tending the battleship's coal-fired boilers. Photo by Edward H. Hart, Detroit Publishing Co. View full size.

Circa 1898. "U.S.S. Massachusetts in dry dock." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative by Edward H. Hart, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Chelsea, Michigan, circa 1901. "Glazier Stove Co., view in yard." It's been ages since we checked in at the stove works. Detroit Publishing Co. View full size.

Circa 1910. "Charleston, South Carolina." A back-door view of the waterfront. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

New Orleans circa 1910. "A typical milk cart." At the Shaving Parlor. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

January 1943. "Freight train operations on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad between Chicago and Clinton, Iowa. The caboose is the conductor's second home. He always uses the same one and many conductors cook and sleep there while waiting for trains to take back from division points." Medium format nitrate negative by Jack Delano, Office of War Information. View full size.

"Woodward & Lothrop kitchen." A display at the Washington, D.C., department store circa 1926. National Photo Co. Collection glass negative. View full size.

49 years after they arrived from Italy, my father and grandmother pose at her new home in Calpella, California. He's 53, she's 73. In the background beyond the fence, part of the vineyard my grandfather had sold a couple years before after working it for almost 40 years. Also, our 1948 Hudson. One of my brother's first Ektachrome slides, restored and color-corrected. View full size.

August 3, 1921. Washington, D.C. "Mrs. Jno. W. Clarke." Shown tweeting. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1928. "Demonstration of Four Wheel Drive truck." Another view of the exciting truck trials first glimpsed here and here. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.

Detroit, Michigan, circa 1910. "Campus Martius at night." A nocturnal view of the Soldiers and Sailors Monument. Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Circa 1910. No caption information for this group portrait, just the notation "Mrs. G.W. Quirse" on the negative. Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Circa 1900. "Railway depot at Grosse Ile, Michigan." Sunnyside Station, as one commenter has informed us. This concludes our visit to Grosse Ile on the Detroit River. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. View full size.

Wayne County, Mich., circa 1900. "Rio Vista, Grosse Ile." On the porch is our host for this brief visit, William Livingstone. Detroit Publishing Co. View full size.