Detroit circa 1908. "Woodward Avenue and Central Methodist Episcopal Church." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

1901. "Isle of Palms near Charleston, South Carolina." Panorama made from two 8x10 inch glass negatives. Photo by William Henry Jackson. View full size.

Detroit circa 1910. "Y.W.C.A., Washington Boulevard and Clifford Street." The building last glimpsed here. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

November 1939. "Scene in the business section of Gonzales, Texas." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

From 1951 and Don Cox comes our second nighttime glimpse of the Las Vegas Club, "The House of Jack Pots." 35mm Kodachrome transparency. View full size.

"Las Vegas 1951." Today's first Kodachrome, of the gas station at the Hotel Last Frontier, comes to us by way of the late Don Cox, 70 years after he snapped the shutter. View full size.

August 1941. Froid, Montana. "Scandinavian tractor combine driver drinking water out of a jug in the field where they were harvesting wheat on the Schnitzler Corporation ranch. This boy came to the Schnitzler ranch from South Dakota, where he lives and first harvested their earlier wheat crop before coming up here for the Montana harvest season." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

June 1941. "Change of shift at Pratt & Whitney United Aircraft. East Hartford, Connecticut." The sign: DON'T LEAN ON GLASS. Acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.

June 1941. "Daughter of Frank Robbins, United Aircraft employee who lives in trailer with his wife and four children because of the housing shortage. East Hartford, Connecticut." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.

September 1941. "Telephone sign along highway. Judith Basin, Great Falls, Montana." Acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

"Las Vegas 1951 -- Las Vegas Club." The latest Kodachrome noir from the camera of our roving western correspondent Don Cox. View full size.

February 1969. "Night Traffic." This Kodachrome of Oceanside from a San Diego Freeway overpass is our latest posthumous dispatch from the camera of Don Cox, courtesy of his friend and "Birth of Hot-Rodding" co-author Robert Genat. View full size.

November 1940. "City Hall after a snowstorm in Norwich, Connecticut." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

November 1940. "Boys in the schoolhouse in Ledyard, Connecticut, working on the school newspaper." Title of their typescript: "A Happy Christmas for Tom." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

March 1943. "Washington, D.C. Riding on a streetcar." Medium format nitrate negative by Esther Bubley for the Office of War Information. View full size.