St. Louis circa 1901. "Planters Hotel, Fourth and Chestnut." Completed 1893; demolished 1976. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative. View full size.

Oakland circa 1956 and another motoring mishap, with yet another guilty-looking Buick. 4x5 acetate negative from the News Photo Archive. View full size.

February 1924. "Miss Viola Hudson, the WCAP 'Valentine Girl,' who on St. Valentine night broadcast a greeting to radio fans." Regarded by many historians as the beginning of Fox News. Harris & Ewing glass negative. View full size.

May 22, 1936. "Warehouse district, Water and Dock Streets, Brooklyn, looking west under Brooklyn Bridge to Lower Manhattan." 8x10 gelatin silver print by Berenice Abbott for the Federal Art Project. View full size.

"Franklin sedan, San Francisco, 1927." An upscale auto parked outside an imposing home whose balcony seems to have been modified for keeping chickens or children. 5x7 glass inch negative by Christopher Helin. View full size.

        UPDATE: Shorpy member Ben Roundabloc reveals our inscribed ingenue to be the actress Dorothy Appleby, who featured in the theatrical revue "Puzzles of 1925."

January 1925. Washington, D.C. "Man painting woman's back" is all it says here. Who can help fill in the blanks? Harris & Ewing glass negative. View full size.

      The "bonus" was a benefit, specified by the World War Adjusted Compensation Act of 1924, that WW1 veterans were supposed to redeem no earlier than 1945; their demands for early compensation during the depths of the Depression led to the Bonus Army protests of 1932, in which some 40,000 mostly unemployed veterans gathered from across the United States to demonstrate for cash-payment redemption of their service certificates.

1932. "'Bonus or Bust, Orlando to Washington' -- shanty in encampment built by World War I veterans in the Bonus Expeditionary Force in Washington, D.C." Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. View full size.

Circa 1901. "Gratiot Light, Port Huron, Michigan." A great lighthouse on a Great Lake! 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Circa 1900. "Nathan Cobb house, a summer cottage, Ormond, Fla." A residence built from materials salvaged from the wrecked schooner Nathan F. Cobb, which capsized and ran aground off Ormond Beach in 1896. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative by William Henry Jackson. View full size.

The Jersey Shore circa 1900. "Children playing in the surf at Asbury Park." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

San Francisco circa 1928. "DeSoto sedan cresting hill." Last seen here a year ago, making steady progress up Webster Street toward points unknown. 5x7 inch glass negative by automotive impresario Christopher Helin. View full size.

Circa 1935. "Water scenes. Water and Sky I. Made for Mr. Sharpe of Potomac Electric Power Co." 5x7 nitrate negative by Theodor Horydczak. View full size.

Prince George's County, Maryland, circa 1940. "Electric Institute of Washington. Cameo Theatre, Mount Rainier lecture." Reddy Kilowatt wants you to Just Say No to coal and gas. Safety negative by Theodor Horydczak. View full size.

Circa 1901. "The New Post Office, Milwaukee, Wisconsin." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Circa 1905. "Main Street in Keene, New Hampshire." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.