May 22, 1911. "Buhl Stamping Co., Detroit, Mich. Office from inside." Last seen here, from across the counter. Office-Boy, finally off the phone, is now on the filing cabinet, while Miss Shorthand has changed desks to take some dictation. 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size.

July 1939. Gordonton, N.C. "Country store on dirt road. Sunday afternoon. Note kerosene pump on the right and the gasoline pump on the left. Rough, unfinished timber posts have been used as supports for porch roof. Negro men sitting on the porch. Brother of store owner stands in doorway." 4x5 nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Admin. View full size.

Detroit circa 1910. "Library Park, Gratiot Avenue & Farmer Street." This 8x10 glass plate was originally part of a multi-section panorama whose other parts have been lost, so we'll have to make do with the Dental Depot and its neighbors -- Rudolph Freidenburg's Woolens, and Hiram Goldberg's Union-Made "Clothes of Class," the class available in increments of $5. Also: "Nick Carter," a "Great Detective Story in 3 Parts," playing at the Theatre Royale ("Finest 5¢ Show"). Rising in the background, the domed tower of the Wayne County Building. View full size.

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May 22, 1911. "Buhl Stamping Co., Detroit, Mich. Office from inside." Manufacturer of milk cans and tubular lanterns. 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

New York circa 1908. "Presbyterian Building, Fifth Avenue and West 20th Street." Still anchoring this corner of the Flatiron District, 127 years after its completion in 1895. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Detroit circa 1911. "National Biscuit Co." Manufacturers of the once-ubiquitous Uneeda Biscuit as well as its obliviated sibling, the Uneeda Jinjer Wayfer. (Proximity notwithstanding, something tells us that no amount of glib sloganeering will ever turn Byers Full Weight Wrought Iron Pipe into an impulse purchase.) Detroit Publishing glass negative. View full size.

Detroit circa 1915. "Woodward Avenue -- Whitney Building and Grand Circus Park." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

1918. "Federal truck -- San Francisco Casket Co." Makers of the box you'll go in. A sobering scene from the depths of the Spanish Flu epidemic. 5x7 inch glass negative by Christopher Helin. View full size.

Boston circa 1908. "Hotel Thorndike, Boylston and Church Streets." The establishment last seen here, minus the bulb-studded rooftop sign. 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size.

October 1941. Cowlitz County, Washington. "Holdings and operations of the Long Bell Lumber Company. Highway goes under wooden trestle for railroad." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

October 1941. "Waterfront of Bay City, Oregon, a fishing town." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

September 1941. Hermiston, Oregon. "When workmen at the Umatilla ordnance depot broke a world record by pouring concrete for twenty-four igloos in twenty-four hours, the contractor threw a beer party for them." (The "igloos" were concrete bunkers for storing munitions.) Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee. View full size.

September 1941. Hermiston, Oregon. "Housing for workmen at the Umatilla ordnance depot discloses its temporary nature by the unfinished interior." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

September 1941. Hermiston, Oregon. "Crowded halls in high school between classes." Another look at the Kids in the Hall last seen here, including That Guy With the Eyebrows. Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

September 1941. "By the Pacific Ocean. Seaside, Oregon." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.