January 1941. "Busload of steelworkers going home. Aliquippa, Pennsylvania." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

January 1941. "Inside the abandoned Howard Stove Works, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania." Medium format negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

November 1941. "Mr. and Mrs. Lee Wagoner Wagner, who farm on the Black Canyon Project. Canyon County, Idaho." Photo by Russell Lee, Farm Security Administration. View full size.

January 1941. "Punch press at the Washington Tinplate Works. Washington, Pennsylvania." Acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

May 1940. "Street in Louisville, Kentucky." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

May 1940. "Cotton carnival. Memphis, Tennessee." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

October 1958. "High school student Bill Kolb of White Plains, New York, teenage driver who works part-time as clerk in neighborhood market." 35mm acetate negative by Charlotte Brooks for the Look magazine assignment "Teenage Driving." View full size.

May 1955. "Los Angeles Policewoman of the Year Fransis Sumner questioning suspected drug user. Photographs show Officer Sumner working and training; questioning people; with children and infants; at jail with women prisoners; at firing range with other policewomen; in hand-to-hand combat class; in judo class; on obstacle course. Also photographs of Sumner receiving award; with husband at restaurant; at home knitting and cooking." 35mm negative by Earl Theisen from the Look magazine assignment "Police Woman." View full size.

January 1960. "Fashion model in front of Guggenheim Museum, New York, wearing hat that resembles the museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright." Acetate negative by Tony Vaccaro for the Look magazine assignment "For Women Only: Architectural Hats." View full size.

November 4, 1959. "People and cars, Essex Street and Henry Street, Lower East Side, New York City." 35mm acetate negative by Marion Trikosko for the U.S. News & World Report assignment "Puerto Rican Story N.Y.C." USN&WR Collection, Library of Congress. View full size.

Detroit circa 1915. "Detroit Creamery Co." At right, the Hotel Tuller; at left, a dealer in Studebaker wagons. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

May 22, 1911. "Buhl Stamping Co., Detroit, Mich. Office from inside." Last seen here, from across the counter. Office-Boy, finally off the phone, is now on the filing cabinet, while Miss Shorthand has changed desks to take some dictation. 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size.

July 1939. Gordonton, N.C. "Country store on dirt road. Sunday afternoon. Note kerosene pump on the right and the gasoline pump on the left. Rough, unfinished timber posts have been used as supports for porch roof. Negro men sitting on the porch. Brother of store owner stands in doorway." 4x5 nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Admin. View full size.

Detroit circa 1910. "Library Park, Gratiot Avenue & Farmer Street." This 8x10 glass plate was originally part of a multi-section panorama whose other parts have been lost, so we'll have to make do with the Dental Depot and its neighbors -- Rudolph Freidenburg's Woolens, and Hiram Goldberg's Union-Made "Clothes of Class," the class available in increments of $5. Also: "Nick Carter," a "Great Detective Story in 3 Parts," playing at the Theatre Royale ("Finest 5¢ Show"). Rising in the background, the domed tower of the Wayne County Building. View full size.

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May 22, 1911. "Buhl Stamping Co., Detroit, Mich. Office from inside." Manufacturer of milk cans and tubular lanterns. 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.