July 1940. "Acrobat and audience at Spanish-American traveling show. Penasco, New Mexico." View full size. Medium format safety negative by Russell Lee.

May 5, 1910. St. Louis, Missouri. "Truants like these may be found most any day between 11 a.m. & noon. Jefferson Street near Washington." View full size. Photograph and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine.

November 1939. "Negro boys sitting on bench on street, Waco, Texas." 35mm negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

Taking the air in Washington, D.C., in 1920. "McDevitt, wife and baby." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.

Chicago, April 1943. "General view of part of the South Water Street Illinois Central Railroad freight terminal." View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information.

December 1941. "Lower Manhattan seen from the S.S. Coamo leaving New York." View full size. 35mm negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information

February 1942. "Do you know why sugar must be rationed? Why you can't buy any more refrigerators or pleasure cars? There's plenty of material available on these subjects which can be obtained from the government." View full size. Medium format negative by Ann Rosener for the Office of War Information.

Puerto Rico, January 1938. "Workers in a tobacco field. The straw shed in the background is a hurricane shelter." View full size. Medium-format safety negative by Edwin Rosskam for the Farm Security Administration.