Detroit circa 1914. "Free transfer auto -- Elliott, Taylor, Woolfenden Co." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

On the Merry-go-round at Coney Island, New York, in 1963. View full size.

Circa 1890s. "Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. Detroit Photographic Special." Detroit Photographic Co.'s rolling showroom-darkroom. View full size.

Circa 1902. "Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad dining car." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Detroit circa 1914. "Construction work, grade separation, Fourteenth Avenue." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Holyoke, Massachusetts, circa 1908. "Lower station, Mount Tom Railway." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

November 1908. Chester, South Carolina. "Jamie Sherley, (girl). Wylie Mills. Been in mill six years. Ambro Sherley, 11 years old. Been in mill over one year." Photo and caption by the child-labor documentarian Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size.

Rochester, New York, circa 1908. "Pompeiian Room -- Hotel Seneca." (Catchphrase: "In the Pompeiian Room, everyone smokes!") 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

January 1939. "Housewife boiling clothes -- Chicot Farms, Arkansas." Note the primitive nature of this washer -- it doesn't even have a "simmer" setting. 35mm nitrate negative by Russell Lee, Farm Security Administration. View full size.

Edwardian-Bohemian New York circa 1909. "Bacchus Dance -- Miss Grace Walters, Mrs. A.S. Burden, Miss M.R. White, Alfred Hester, Mrs. James B. Eustis, Miss Martha White." 8x10 glass negative, Bain News Service. View full size.

January 1939. "Housewife reading in living room. Chicot Farms, Arkansas." A peek behind the porch seen in the previous post. 35mm nitrate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

January 1939. Chicot Farms, Arkansas. "Husband and wife on porch of farm house." Photo by Russell Lee, Farm Security Administration. View full size.

New York circa 1917. "St. Luke's Hospital children's ward." 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. View full size.

New York circa 1917. "Gladys Kierstead -- Pratt Institute cooking class." Immediately followed by finger inventory. Bain News Service. View full size.

A very quiet night, after midnight in Medford, Massachusetts. Not sure of the make or year of the car. View full size.