Circa 1910. "Bathing at the Old Club, St. Clair Flats, Michigan." With a rowboat in the water and a showboat in midair. 8x10 glass negative. View full size.

1949. "The mid-century look is now the American look. Photographs show people who personify the 'American look.' Nineteen-year-old fashion model Ann Klem is shown at work and at leisure. Includes Klem (seated) with another woman at a photographer's studio." From photos by Stanley Kubrick and Janet Mevi for the Look magazine assignment "American Look." View full size.

November 1942. "Babies' Hospital, New York. Care of prematurely born babies is one of the most complicated procedures which must be learned by the student nurse. Feeding, bathing and diaper changing are carried on inside the incubator, in which temperature, humidity and oxygen must be carefully regulated. The oxygen tank can be seen in the background." Photo by Fritz Henle. View full size.

New Zealand circa 1958. "U-Rect-It fittings in Hill Bros. grocery store." A peek through the grocery-wormhole into an alternate universe of "Weeties" and Kellogg's "Rice Bubbles." Photo by K.E. Niven & Co., Wellington. View full size.

Washington, D.C., or vicinity circa 1917. "Gash, Stull Co. (Bright-Shepherd job)." A parade of vintage earthmoving equipment. National Photo Co. View full size.

July 1942. "These high school boys constructed this trainer plane, and the young man holding the stick is operating it. Note the instruments and control board. This is one phase of the aviation course offered boys at the Weequahic High School in Newark, New Jersey." Text in the cockpit: "Getting the Plane Off the Ground." Office of War Information, photographer unknown. View full size.

September 1942. "Tires need checking too? Shifting trends of employment in wartime America have opened up new jobs for women such as this young East Liverpool, Ohio, girl who has pioneered in two new fields since graduation from high school. She learned butchering first, and built up quite a reputation as a purveyor of choice cuts. Now she's one of the most efficient service station attendants in the neighborhood. Her name? Virginia Excell." Photo by Ann Rosener for the Office of War Information. View full size.