August 1939. "Great Plains and highway north of Amarillo, Texas." Medium format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

May 1939. "Grave. Kempton, West Virginia. The cemetery is on the top of a hill behind the town." Acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

February 1940. "Black cat in snow. Ross County, Ohio." Medium format acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

August 1942. "Midway, Bingham County, Idaho. Sanitary facilities." Medium format nitrate negative by Russell Lee for the Office of War Information. View full size.

July 1942. "Oakridge, Oregon. Vacationist." Early version of the Family Campster. Medium format nitrate negative by Russell Lee for the Office of War Information. View full size.

Circa 1905. "New York City, Snap Shatow, 42nd Street, showing entrance to Grand Central Station." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

New York circa 1905. "Dreamland Park and tower, Coney Island." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

St. Augustine, Florida, circa 1905. "In the court of the Hotel Ponce de Leon." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

Hoboken, New Jersey, circa 1905. "Entrance to Holland America Line piers." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

Circa 1905. "Old Hilliard homestead, Richmond, Virginia." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

North Adams, Massachusetts, circa 1908. "Richmond Hotel, Main Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Salem, Massachusetts, circa 1906. "Peirce-Nichols house (completed 1782), Federal Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Grosse Pointe, Michigan, circa 1910. "F.M. Alger residence." The home of banker-industrialist Frederick Moulton Alger. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

"1957 Mercury Commuter at Hialeah Park racetrack, Miami." The rear vent wing in this 1956 photo of a prototype station wagon never made it to production. Color transparency from the Ford Motor Co. media archive. View full size.

1902. "Lizzie Bourne monument, Mount Washington, White Mountains, New Hampshire." Miss Bourne, who succumbed to exposure, was just a few hundred feet from the summit house when she expired on that blustery September night in 1855. 5x7 glass negative. View full size.

October 1950. Salt Lake City, Utah. "Mormon boys receiving Communion." Acetate negative from photos by Jim Hansen for the Look magazine assignment "Mormons: We Are a Peculiar People," written by Lewis W. Gillenson. View full size.