Marquette, Michigan, circa 1908. "Ridge Street." A representative residential thoroughfare from the days of hitching posts and mounting blocks. 8x10 glass negative. View full size.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, circa 1908. "Liberty Avenue at Seventh Avenue, looking west." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, circa 1908. "General market, Diamond Square." Back when baskets were big business. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, circa 1908. "Fifth Avenue, looking north." Detroit Publishing Company glass negative. View full size.

Augusta, Georgia, 1903. "Georgia Railroad Bank, Seventh and Broad Streets." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, circa 1913. "Riverbank Court from Harvard Bridge." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

        This brick Tudor-style manor, originally known as Riverbank Court, was designed to be a luxurious apartment house facing the new Cambridge esplanade, today's Memorial Drive. When that real estate scheme failed, the building became a student dormitory (Ashdown House) under the auspices of MIT.     -- Archipedia.org

The Sunshine State circa 1900. "Miami, Fla., fish docks along the Miami River." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

New Orleans circa 1910. "Audubon Building, Canal and Burgundy Sts." This former office building is now the Saint Hotel. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative. View full size.

San Francisco circa 1925. "Wills Sainte Claire Six seven-passenger sedan at Lafayette Park." 5x7 inch glass negative by Christopher Helin. View full size.

February 1942. "Chicago, Illinois. Michigan Avenue." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.

February 1942. "Meeker County, Minnesota. Three generations of the McRaith family on their farms. One of the McRaith grandchildren." Photo by John Vachon. View full size.

February 1942. "Union County, Missouri. Roadhouse." Fill 'er up with Hyde Park! Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.

March 20, 1946. "Dollar Savings Bank, Grand Concourse, Bronx, New York. Exterior, from right." 5x7 inch acetate negative by Gottscho-Schleisner. View full size.

January 1942. "Wrecking yard in Clarksburg, West Virginia." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.

February 1942. "Burlington, Iowa. Acres Unit, Farm Security Administration trailer camp. In the utility building for workers at Burlington ordnance plant." Home of the Granitine Laundry Tray. Acetate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.