February 1942. "Tulare County, California. FSA farm workers' camp. At the movies." Not to be outdone by our previous FSA photo, we have two birders here, and three birds! Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

New York, 1888. "Bandits' roost, 59½ Mulberry Street (Mulberry Bend)." Gelatin silver print from a glass negative by the social reformer Jacob Riis (1849-1914). View full size.

February 1942. Woodville, Calif. "FSA farm workers' community. First aid class." Today's lesson: finger splints! Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

February 1942. "Porterville, California. Vegetable stand in grocery store." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

January 1942. Woodville, California. "FSA farm workers' community. Games are played in the recreation room in the community building." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

February 1942. Woodville, Calif. "FSA farm workers' community. Agricultural worker and his family in their garden house." Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Admin. View full size.

February 1942. Woodville, California. "FSA farm workers' community. Boys in recreation room." Acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

New York circa 1890s. "Street view, 21-23 Pearl Street." Glass negative by Robert L. Bracklow (1849-1919), a member of the Society of Amateur Photographers of New York. View full size.

New York circa 1912. "National City Bank, Wall Street at William Street." Also the Atlantic Building, and a sliver of U.S. Trust. Detroit Publishing Company glass negative. View full size.

West Point, New York, circa 1910. "The Academic Building -- cadets returning from mess." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

My niece and nephews were coming down for an Easter egg hunt, so that gave my brother, his wife and me an excuse to color some eggs for the first time since our own childhood. I made a caricature of my brother, another that was supposed to look like the Western Hemisphere, and at the bottom center in a sort of holiday mashup, an homage to one of our favorite vintage Christmas tree ornaments. The brown ones were made via the traditional onion skin method and some forgotten arcane process produced the blue-and-white mottled jobs. Paste-on printed features from an egg-dyeing kit are on two, and two more are named for their creators. All posed against the lawn at the family home in Idyllic Larkspur™, California and immortalized by me with this Polaroid snapshot. View full size.

        Happy Easter from Chicago, and from Shorpy.

April 1941. "Negro boys on Easter morning, Southside Chicago." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

New York circa 1912. "Fifth Avenue south from Thirty-Sixth Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

In your Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it,
You'll be the grandest lady in the Easter Parade.
I'll be all in clover and when they look you over,
I'll be the proudest fellow in the Easter Parade.
On the avenue, Fifth Avenue, the photographers will snap us,
And you'll find that you're in the rotogravure.
Oh, I could write a sonnet about your Easter bonnet,
And of the girl I'm taking to the Easter Parade.

July 25, 1901. "Cadillac Memorial Parade -- Detroit bicentenary celebration. Floats in civic & industrial parade." Looming over the Campus Martius, the Majestic Building and one of the city's celebrated "moonlight towers." Detroit Photographic Co. glass negative. View full size.

Washington, D.C., 1942. "Children playing, aiming sticks as guns." Kodachrome transparency by Louise Rosskam for the Office of War Information. View full size.