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.

August 1956. "Teenagers at a dance party in Southampton, N.Y." Medium format negative from photos for the Look magazine assignment "Young Have New Ideas: They Like to Dress Up." Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Collection. View full size.

"Start of super heating union. [Inventor Charles S.L. Baker and another man, possibly his brother Peter, standing behind heating (radiator) system.]" Photo by Bode, Fifth and Felix Streets, St. Joseph, Missouri. Copyright by Charles S.L. Baker, Feb. 12, 1906. View full size.

January 1940. "Buckets placed in room to catch water from leaky ceiling in a house in Mount Washington district. Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania." Photo by Jack Delano. View full size.

January 1940. "Woman in dilapidated old house in the Mount Washington district of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. She is blind in one eye and her other one is going bad too. She expressed the hope that she would lose her sight completely so she could get some money from blind pension." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano. View full size.

January 1941. "Steelworkers of the Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, waiting for a bus to go home at the end of the afternoon shift." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano. View full size.

September 1941. "Abandoned farmhouse in the dry land area of the Sandhills northeast of Scottsbluff, Nebraska." Acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.

June 1939. "Hotel bedroom. Elkins, West Virginia." The Bare Bulb Arms hopes you enjoy your stay in the Edward Hopper Suite. Acetate negative by John Vachon. View full size.

July 1939. Washington, D.C. "Parking lot for government employees, and buildings being torn down to make room for parking lot." Medium format negative by John Vachon. View full size.

Bethesda, Maryland, circa 1940. "National Naval Medical Center, front from left." Part of the hospital complex known today as Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. 8x10 inch acetate negative by Theodor Horydczak. View full size.

June 1943. "Arlington, Virginia. Mirrors over the dressing table conceal a cabinet which gives girls extra space for their cosmetics, etc., at Arlington Farms, a residence for women who work in the government for the duration of the war." Medium-format negative by Esther Bubley for the Office of War Information. View full size.