"Eager for deer. Deer-hunting beagles." Circa 1901-1906 photograph by William Henry Jackson. Detroit Publishing Company glass negative. View full size.

"America, Mississippi riverboat, circa 1900-1910." Note the group of convicts in prison stripes. Detroit Publishing Company glass negative. View full size.

Washington, D.C., 1925. "Jerry Mangan and Ione Whalen, Wardman Park Pool." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.

March 1909. "One way to control the street boys. A common scene in the Bancroft-Foote Boys Club, New Haven, Connecticut." View full size. Photograph and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine.

October 1942. "Scrap and salvage depot. Butte, Montana." Where this kind of stuff ended up in the olden days, back before they invented eBay. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Russell Lee for the Office of War Information.

"People's Drug Store, Seventh and K Street N.W." A Washington, D.C., soda fountain circa 1921. National Photo Company glass negative. View full size.

"Wells Corset Shop, 1920." Unmentionables under glass at 1331 G Street N.W. in Washington. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.

Detroit, July 1942. "Looking east on Farnsworth Street with the Rackham Memorial Building at right and Detroit Institute of Art on the left." 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Arthur Siegel. View full size.