THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL PHOTO ARCHIVE • FRAMED PRINTS • STOCK IMAGES

April 1943. "Dallas, Texas. Linotype operators at the Dallas Morning News." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.

"Livingstone Channel -- steam shovel removing rock loosened by dynamite." Circa 1910, construction of the navigation channel along the Detroit River. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

April 1943. "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Sealing envelopes containing seed at the W. Atlee Burpee Company, seed dealers." Acetate negative by Arthur Siegel. View full size.

January/February 1923. "Headquarters of the U.S. Coast Guard are using a unique method for distributing news of their service by means of radio. Capt. F.C. Billard, aide to the commandant, is shown broadcasting. Lt. F.A Zensler is coaching him from the receiving set, which is being used by Lt. E.M. Webster (with earpieces)." Harris & Ewing glass negative. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1926. "Lt. Edward M. Webster, Coast Guard." Operating a Western Electric Type CGR-1-A radio receiver. 4x5 inch glass negative, National Photo Co. View full size.

The St. Lawrence River circa 1901. "Thousand Islands -- Gananoque, Ontario, from Quarry Island." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

Washington, D.C. -- October 22, 1921. "Junkers-Larsen 'JL-12,' the dreadnaught of the air, arrived at Bolling Field yesterday after a 2½-hour flight from Long Island, New York. Designed principally for attack on enemy troops, it is equipped with 30 Thompson submachine guns and can discharge 3,000 bullets in four seconds. George Wise, machine gun expert, and Brooke Hyde-Pearson [1894-1924], pilot of the JL-12, preparing to demonstrate two of the machine guns." (Washington Post) 4x5 inch glass negative, Harris & Ewing Collection. View full size.

October 1902. Dayton, Ohio. "Assembling Department, National Cash Register." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative by William Henry Jackson, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

"Philadelphia area circa 1935. Pennsylvania Railroad Locomotive PRR 6757." Glass negative by John S. Powell, Louis A. Marre Rail Transportation Photograph Collection. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1919, somewhere along M Street. "Big naval gun of type used in France." These 14-inch, 50-caliber railway guns, deployed to France toward the end of World War I, had a range of 24 miles. More information here, here and here. As well as on this plaque. 8x6 inch glass negative, National Photo Company Collection. View full size.

November 4, 1924. "Election night crowd at Washington Star." Two more "election screens," and an election bullhorn. 8x10 inch glass negative, National Photo Company. View full size.

November 1920. Washington, D.C. "Washington Herald election screen." The screen being white sheets hung from this frame on election night, with wire-service voting results projected onto them from a stereopticon -- a practice dating back at least to the 1890s in cities across the United States, and which gradually died out with the advent of broadcast radio. Mold-flecked 4x5 inch glass negative from the National Photo Company Collection. View full size.

March 1943. "Kiowa, Kansas. An Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe rail detector car. These cars are actually traveling scientific instruments, which not only detect faulty rails but also record the place and extent of the defect." Photo by Jack Delano, Office of War Information. View full size.

March 1943. "Waynoka, Oklahoma. An Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe operator and telegrapher throwing one of the interlocking switches." Thirty years old and still playing with trains! Acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.

June 17, 1938. Washington, D.C. "No more hot air in Congress. Two million cubic feet of clean, cool air is delivered to members of Congress each minute by a $3,500,000 air conditioning plant, part of which is shown above. The plant supplies the entire Capitol and the Senate and the new and old House Office Buildings." 4x5 glass negative by Harris & Ewing. View full size.

March 1943. "Fort Madison, Iowa. Mr. H.D. Tyres, yardmaster on the route of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad." Photo by Jack Delano, Office of War Information. View full size.