1922. "Surgery #12." Another selection from the "surgery" series of images, this one showing an anesthesiologist administering nitrous oxide prior to the operation. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.

"Hotel St. George, Brooklyn, circa 1905." Plus a ghost or two in this time exposure of the hotel's Clark Street facades. This Brooklyn Heights landmark, which by the 1930s was New York's largest hotel, with 2,632 rooms in a complex of buildings spread over a block, started with the 10-story dark brick structure, completed in 1885. After more than a century, it was destroyed by fire in 1995. The adjoining white building with the flagpoles, designed by Montrose Morris in the 1890s, still stands. Detroit Publishing Co. glass negative. View full size.

"Brooklyn Bridge and East River. April 1909." At left, the Manhattan Bridge under construction in this view looking east into Brooklyn with Manhattan Terminal at lower left. 8x10 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. View full size.

March 4, 1913. "Inaugural ceremony, East Front of Capitol." Woodrow Wilson being sworn in as 28th president of the United States. View full size.

Washington, D.C., 1914. "Boy Scouts -- field sports." In the background: The Frazee-Potomac laundry. Harris & Ewing glass negative. View full size.

1914. "U.S. Capitol. Cleaning interior." Harris & Ewing glass neg. View full size.

1914. "White House tent in Rose Garden." A view of the executive mansion from over the West Wing looking east past the Treasury and along Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol. Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. View full size.

"Boy Scout Training demonstration, 1912." Yes, they're back. I found a few more of these oddly poignant portraits of Scouting first aid to the injured. Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. View full size.

New York circa 1917. "Calm about it. At Fifty-sixth and Lexington Avenue, the women voters showed no ignorance or trepidation, but cast their ballots in a businesslike way that bespoke study of suffrage." National Photo. View full size.

In political reportage there's a lot written about the House floor, but what about the ceiling? From 1925, a topside view of the House of Representatives in the U.S. Capitol. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.

"Galen Gough, October 5, 1923." The Miracle Strong Man under two tons of fun outside the State, War and Navy building in Washington, D.C. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.

October 5, 1923. Washington, D.C. The war hero and former invalid Galen Gough, known as the "Miracle Strong Man" after recovering from having his head caved in by bomb shrapnel in France. National Photo Co. glass negative. View full size.

November 1912. Providence, Rhode Island. "Girls 6, 9 and 11 years old, working on chain-bags in home of Mrs. Antonio Caruso, 132 Knight Street." Imaged from a glass negative taken by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size.

November 1912. "Children going through Whitman Street dump. Pawtucket, Rhode Island." Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size.

January 23, 1925. "George F. Mitchell, Bureau of Chemistry, Agriculture Department, testing tea." National Photo Co. glass negative. View full size.