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.

G.W. Is Victor by 32 to 0 Score

Hayman, at Tackle, Is Star as Juniata Is Swamped

        George Washington University backfield players, escorted by an interference which laid low first and secondary defense, six times traversed the goal line of the Juniata college eleven of Huntington, Pa., yesterday at Central stadium and produced a 32-0 victory over the team which last year triumphed 7 to 0 at Huntington in the game between the two teams.

-- Shirley Povich, Washington Post, 10/4/1925

Oct. 3, 1925. Washington, D.C. "Geo. Wash. U. vs. Juniata Col. at Central High." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.

Oakland circa 1955, and yet another Buick come a cropper. We promise to call an ambulance just as soon as you finish filling out these photo releases! 4x5 inch acetate negative from the Shorpy News Photo Archive. View full size.

New York City, 1975. "Three boys with tough expressions smoking cigarettes." Compare with Lewis Hine's photo Skeeter's Branch Newsies, from 65 years earlier. Gelatin silver print by William J. Cunningham. View full size.

11 a.m. Monday, May 9, 1910. "Newsies at Skeeter’s Branch, Jefferson near Franklin, St. Louis." Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size.

Cleveland circa 1905. "Central Armory, Ohio National Guard." Last seen here. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

November 1942. Chicago. "Wheels and axles outside the locomotive shops at an Illinois Central Railroad yard." Medium-format nitrate negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.

San Francisco circa 1919. "Nash touring car." Across from the pool hall, taking delivery of some apple crates and an Edison Electric Something-or-Other. 5x7 glass negative by Christopher Helin. View full size.

March 18, 1952. "United Nations Secretariat and General Assembly from Welfare Island, East River." 5x7 acetate negative by Gottscho-Schleisner. View full size.

September 1938. "House, Negro and white section, Charleston, West Virginia." 35mm nitrate negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.