September 1940. "St. Mary's County, Maryland. Negro Farm Security Administration clients and their homes -- Mr. and Mrs. Dyson [John and Louise], aged rehabilitation borrowers. Mr. Dyson was born into slavery over eighty years ago." Photo by John Vachon. View full size.

July 1940. "Brick house on main street of Benton Harbor, Michigan." Our focus here is next door, on the Kewpee Hotel restaurant, purveyor of "Kewpee Hamburgs" (a regional chain last glimpsed here). Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon. View full size.

October 1937. "Main street in Michigan, North Dakota." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

April 1940. "Des Moines, Iowa" is all it says here. Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.

New York City. 1958. "People gathered at lunch counter." 35mm negative by street photographer Angelo Rizzuto (1906-1967), a.k.a. Anthony Angel. View full size.

April 1940. "Victorian house. Dubuque, Iowa." The old A.A. Cooper mansion, "Greystone," demolished in 1956. Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon. View full size.

Honolulu circa 1909. "Scotch-Hawaiian boy." Gelatin silver print by Caroline Haskins Gurrey (1875-1927), known for her portraits of mixed-race Hawaiian youths. View full size.

September 1957. "The Willis Cooper family on the front porch of their farmhouse near Radcliffe, Iowa, surrounded by animals and foods." 35mm color transparency from photos by Jim Hansen for the Look magazine assignment "Iowa family." View full size.

August 1957. New York. "Up-to-date wardrobe -- men's fashions." Medium format negative from photos for the Look magazine assignment "Is Your Wardrobe Up-to-Date?" View full size.

September 9, 1957. "Mrs. Willis Cooper baking and canning in the kitchen of her farmhouse near Radcliffe, Iowa." Color transparency from photos by Jim Hansen for the Look magazine assignment "Iowa family." View full size.

May 1940. "Planting corn using listing method. Western Iowa. Monona County." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.

June 1941. "Mr. Lloyd Lewis, Greene County ordinary, in his office in Greensboro, Georgia." Medium format negative by Jack Delano for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.

June 1941. "Eating a five-cent hot lunch at the Woodville public school. Greene County, Georgia." Happy Thanksgiving from Shorpy! Photo by Jack Delano. View full size.

April 1940. "Catholic church and schoolyard. Dubuque, Iowa." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.

April 1940. "Victorian house. Dubuque, Iowa." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.