August 19, 1912. "Hump pusher, L.S. & M.S. R.R." On verso: "Made by J. Inbody, Elkhart, Indiana. Home Phone 500." A postcard showing trainmen of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway and Locomotive 4595. View full size.

1963. "Parking garage, New Haven, Connecticut. Interior looking down ramp. Paul Rudolph, architect." Photo by Ezra Stoller. Paul Rudolph Collection, Library of Congress. View full size.

Newburgh, New York, circa 1906. "Palatine Hotel and Grant Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

This Kodachrome slide was taken by me, William D. Volkmer, on August 30, 1957, on Atlanta's Peachtree Street in the theater district during a Shriners convention. I was entering my Senior year at Georgia Tech. View full size.

Houghton, Michigan, circa 1908. "Douglass House, Shelden Avenue." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

May 1943. "Corpus Christi, Texas. Truckload of Mexican and Negro farm laborers." Photo by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.

Milwaukee circa 1899. "Chicago & North Western Railway Station." Romanesque Revival structure on Lake Michigan completed in 1890; demolished 1968. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

"Montrose Beach, Chicago, 1946." Our Michigan mother, last seen here and here, working on a Great Lakes suntan. 35mm Kodachrome slide. View full size.

Circa 1919. "Velie two-passenger roadster at First Unitarian Church." A car whose tidy top sports window shades and curtains. 5x7 glass negative by that San Francisco chronicler of all things automotive, Christopher Helin. View full size.

May 30, 1940. "John C.B. Moore residence in Pound Ridge, Westchester County, New York. Living room, to fireplace. Moore & Hutchins, architect." Large-format acetate negative by Gottscho-Schleisner. View full size.

May 1910. "Noon hour at Obear-Nestor Glass Co., East St. Louis, Illinois. Names of the smallest boys are: Walter Kohler, 981 N. 18th Street; Walter Riley, 918 N. 17th Street; Will Convery, 1828 Natalie Avenue; Clifford Matheny, 1927 Summit Avenue. All employed at the glassworks." Photo by Lewis Hine. View full size.

The Shriners' Annual Convention took place in downtown Atlanta's Peachtree Street on August 30, 1957. As a senior at Georgia Tech, I was there to photograph the action. The Loew's Grand Theatre in the background was the location of the premiere of "Gone With the Wind" in 1939. 35mm Kodachrome by William D. Volkmer. View full size.

Wayne County, Michigan, circa 1899. "Detroit Museum of Art." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

December 1942. "Chicago, Illinois. An unusually heavy fog in the early afternoon." Photo by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.

June 6, 1956. "Cross County Center. Yonkers, Westchester County, New York. Medical building." 4x5 acetate negative by Gottscho-Schleisner. View full size.