February 1942. Woodville, Calif. "FSA farm workers' community. Agricultural worker and his family in their garden house." Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Admin. View full size.

February 1942. Woodville, California. "FSA farm workers' community. Boys in recreation room." Acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

New York circa 1890s. "Street view, 21-23 Pearl Street." Glass negative by Robert L. Bracklow (1849-1919), a member of the Society of Amateur Photographers of New York. View full size.

New York circa 1912. "National City Bank, Wall Street at William Street." Also the Atlantic Building, and a sliver of U.S. Trust. Detroit Publishing Company glass negative. View full size.

West Point, New York, circa 1910. "The Academic Building -- cadets returning from mess." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

My niece and nephews were coming down for an Easter egg hunt, so that gave my brother, his wife and me an excuse to color some eggs for the first time since our own childhood. I made a caricature of my brother, another that was supposed to look like the Western Hemisphere, and at the bottom center in a sort of holiday mashup, an homage to one of our favorite vintage Christmas tree ornaments. The brown ones were made via the traditional onion skin method and some forgotten arcane process produced the blue-and-white mottled jobs. Paste-on printed features from an egg-dyeing kit are on two, and two more are named for their creators. All posed against the lawn at the family home in Idyllic Larkspur™, California and immortalized by me with this Polaroid snapshot. View full size.

        Happy Easter from Chicago, and from Shorpy.

April 1941. "Negro boys on Easter morning, Southside Chicago." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

New York circa 1912. "Fifth Avenue south from Thirty-Sixth Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

In your Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it,
You'll be the grandest lady in the Easter Parade.
I'll be all in clover and when they look you over,
I'll be the proudest fellow in the Easter Parade.
On the avenue, Fifth Avenue, the photographers will snap us,
And you'll find that you're in the rotogravure.
Oh, I could write a sonnet about your Easter bonnet,
And of the girl I'm taking to the Easter Parade.

July 25, 1901. "Cadillac Memorial Parade -- Detroit bicentenary celebration. Floats in civic & industrial parade." Looming over the Campus Martius, the Majestic Building and one of the city's celebrated "moonlight towers." Detroit Photographic Co. glass negative. View full size.

Washington, D.C., 1942. "Children playing, aiming sticks as guns." Kodachrome transparency by Louise Rosskam for the Office of War Information. View full size.

Circa 1910. "Delaware & Hudson Depot, Saratoga, N.Y." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

St. Paul, Minnesota, circa 1905. "Wabasha Street." One dog and one boy, ready for adventures! 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

        UPDATE: The Annenberg Foundation caption information is off by a year; this is 13-year-old Brenda Lee at Centennial Park on June 8, 1958, performing in a concert sponsored by the Nashville Tennessean. (Her first Nashville performance was at night – a double bill with Pat Boone at Ryman Auditorium on September 16, 1957.)

Brenda Lee, "Little Miss Dynamite," in 1957 at age 12, in her first Nashville performance. Photo by Elmer Williams / Annenberg Space for Photography. View full size.

Springfield, Missouri, circa 1959. "Sibling vocal trio The Browns -- Maxine, Bonnie, and Jim Ed -- with Bill Wimberly's Country Rhythm Boys on Jubilee USA, broadcast nationally on ABC-TV." In 1959 their single "The Three Bells" hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop and country charts. Photo by Elmer Williams / Annenberg Space for Photography. View full size.

Summer 1914. "Penn varsity crew team in Poughkeepsie." Bain News Service glass negative. View full size.