March 1941. "Grocery store being converted into apartment to rent near the Navy yard. Portsmouth, Virginia." Medium format negative by John Vachon. View full size.

Atlantic City circa 1913. "The Alamac (formerly Young's Hotel), Boardwalk at Tennessee Avenue." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Atlantic City circa 1910. "The Boardwalk and Hotel Shelburne." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

1906. "Savannah, Georgia -- Union Station." (Did anyone think of calling it Confederate Station?) 5x7 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

St. Augustine, Florida, 1906. "Cathedral Place at Charlotte Street, Plaza de la Constitución." The Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine at right, with the Ponce de Leon Hotel at the end of the street. 5x7 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Charleston, South Carolina, circa 1906. "Old market house (Public Market), Meeting Street." 5x7 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

1906. "Sumter Avenue, Summerville, South Carolina." 5x7 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

"Princess Grace of Monaco, 1957 recipient of the first annual Golden Hat Award after being named 'Best Hatted Woman in the World' by the Millinery Institute of America, shown in 1949 as a teen-age hat model for the United States millinery industry." View full size.

March 1941. "Bedford, Virginia." Would you buy a used DeSoto from these men? Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

March 1941. "Mother and child. Bedford County farm, Virginia." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

The place: Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco, with St. Mary's Cathedral at far left. The year: 1921. The subject: Three Easterners who've motored west in a battered Cadillac touring car. 6½ x 8½ inch glass negative, originally from the Wyland Stanley collection. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1904. "H.D. Watts." Maryland Agricultural College alum (and Cadet Major, as well as tennis champion, football captain, calculus whiz, etc.) Harry Dorsey Watts, last seen here. 5x7 glass negative from the C.M. Bell portrait studio. View full size.

December 1940. "Courthouse. Saturday afternoon. Gadsden, Alabama." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

March 1941. "Boy from North Carolina. Family has just moved to Newport News, Virginia, for work in shipyards." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon. View full size.

December 1940. "Resident of Nashville, Tennessee." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.