January 1941. "Street in the mill town of Midland, Pennsylvania." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

September 1938. "Buying groceries in community store. Tygart Valley, West Virginia." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

March 1940. "Old mill dynamited to avoid taxes after it was shut down about 1930. Berlin, New Hampshire, a paper mill town inhabited largely by French-Canadians and Scandinavians." Acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

Circa 1910. "Twenty-Third Street piers, North River, New York, N.Y." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

1906. Charleston, South Carolina. "East Broad Street." With a view of the Exchange Building & Custom House. 5x7 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

November 1938. "San Joaquin County, Calif. Pumpkins in barnyard to feed cows of rehabil­itation client." Photo by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

        The Dimotakis family farm in Manteca, California, was virtually self-sufficient and grew a variety of fruits: figs, apricots, peaches, loquats, dates, oranges, lemons, limes, mulberries, melons and grapes; vegetables and nuts: peas, beans, zucchini, avocados, olives, pecans, walnuts, almonds. It also included a functioning olive oil plant, dairy and aviary, and livestock, and there was an outdoor wood-burning oven for bread baking; and they kept bees for gathering honey. Most weekends there was a social gathering around food and drink that often included a goat or lamb rotating on a spit. (Source: Cathy Rundell, 2010, descendant of the Dimotakis family, owners of the farm in 1938.)

1906. "Washington Park -- Charleston, South Carolina." The bust is of Charleston native son Henry Timrod, "poet laureate of the Confederacy," backdropped by the Washington Light Infantry Obelisk, a Civil War monument. 5x7 inch glass negative. View full size.

Providence, Rhode Island, 1906. "Library, Brown University." The building currently known as Robinson Hall. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

1906. "The Arcade -- Providence, Rhode Island." This 1828 Greek Revival structure, fronting on Westminster and Weybosset streets, bills itself as the first enclosed shopping mall in the United States. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Fairfax County, Virginia, 1902. "Mount Vernon -- Washington's tomb." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

May 1953. "Dancer-actress Gwen Verdon posed in a bathing suit." Medium format negative from pictures by various photographers for the Look magazine assignment "Midsummer Fantasies: How to Keep Cool in a Heat Wave." View full size.

Los Angeles, 1960. "Sioux tribal leaders on the TV show This Is Your Life, with actor Vincent Price, chairman of the Department of the Interior's Indian Arts and Crafts Board. Left to right: Chief Iron 'Gus' Shell Necklace (Brulé Sioux); Chief Howard Bad Bear and Chief Henry Weasel (Oglala Sioux; survivors of the Wounded Knee Massacre); Chief Ben American Horse; Chief Frank Kicking Bear (Minnicoujou); and Chief John Saul (Yanktonai)." View full size.

1935. "Actor Herman Brix, now named Bruce Bennett, played Tarzan in 1930s." RKO Radio Pictures photo from the 1948 Look magazine article "Princeton-Bred Tarzan." View full size.

"The Big Chiefs -- Nez-Perce and Yakima Indians -- Astoria, Oregon, Centennial -- 1911." Panoramic photo by M.B. Marcell of Portland; copyright deposit Sept. 11, 1911. View full size.

September 12, 1952. "A bit of the husbandly touch is applied by Frankie Sinatra as he greets the missus, sultry Ava Gardner, on her arrival at Idlewild from Hollywood aboard Trans World Airlines' king-sized 'Ambassador' Constellation. Miss Gardner is visiting New York for the premier of her latest production, The Snows of Kilimanjaro. Aviation photo by Enell, Inc., N.Y. International Airport, Jamaica 20, N.Y." View full size.