New Orleans circa 1907. "Canal Street." Center stage: A Streetcar Named Prytania. Composite image made from two 8x10 inch glass negatives. View full size.

New Orleans circa 1903. "Jackson Square and St. Louis Cathedral." Panorama made from two 8x10 inch glass negatives. Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

1864. "Federal cavalry guarding the Orange & Alexandria R.R. near Union Mills, Virginia." Wet plate glass negative by Mathew Brady -- National Archives. View full size.

"1960 Ford Country Squire nine-passenger station wagon." Color transparency from the Ford Motor Co. photographic archive. View full size.

        DEARBORN, Mich., Sept. 24 -- The 1960 standard size Ford will be the longest, lowest and widest in the fifty-six-year history of the Ford Motor Company. At a preview today it was made known that the regular Ford line had grown nearly six inches in length, five inches in width and was an inch lower than the 1959 models ...

-- New York Times, Sept. 1959

Washington, D.C., circa 1901. "View of North Capitol Street N.W., west side, looking south from C Street toward Capitol and B Street (now Constitution Avenue)." 5x7 inch glass negative, D.C. Street Survey Collection. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1901. "View of C Street N.W., north side, looking west from 12th Street." 5x7 inch glass negative, D.C. Street Survey Collection. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1901. "View of D Street N.W., looking west from 12th Street at Pennsylvania Avenue." 5x7 inch glass negative, D.C. Street Survey Collection. View full size.

"1954 Fords -- Dearborn assembly plant final line." Watching the Fords go by in a variety of Easter egg hues. Color transparency from the Ford Motor Co. photo archive. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1901. "View of Sixth Street N.W., west side, looking north from I Street." 5x7 inch glass negative, D.C. Street Survey Collection. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1901. "Elevated view of Virginia Avenue S.W. at E Street, showing Sullivan's Saloon & Pool Room." 5x7 glass negative from the D.C. Street Survey. View full size.

"1957 Thunderbird. Removable glass-fibre hard top has stylish 'port' windows." Color transparency from the Ford Motor Co. photographic archive. View full size.

Columbus, Ohio, circa 1910. "State Capitol and McKinley monument." And birdhouses. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Portland, Maine, circa 1910. "Congress Square Hotel, Congress Street and Forest Avenue." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Circa 1910. "Northeast corner, High and Broad Streets, Columbus, O." Rising above it all: the Capital Trust Building on Capitol Square. 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size.

Dearborn, Michigan, 1953. "Ford 50th Anniversary vehicle display at the Ford Rotunda." On the turntable, the 1954 Mercury Monterey "Sun Valley" with its green-tinted plexiglas roof. Color transparency from the Ford Motor Co. photographic archive. View full size.