Washington, D.C., circa 1905. "Dupont Circle at Connecticut and Massachusetts Avenues N.W. White building at left is Patterson House, 15 Dupont Circle." Not to mention all those pedestrians. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

February 1942. "Bismarck, North Dakota. State capitol." Yea or neigh? Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

April 1942. "Fort Riley, Kansas. G troop of the 10th Cavalry brigade." The African-American regiment of "Buffalo Soldiers" fame. Acetate negative by Jack Delano. View full size.

1906. "The French Market -- New Orleans." Yes, they have bananas, and you can compare apples and oranges, too. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Minneapolis circa 1910. "Hotel Dyckman and Sixth Street." Opened in 1910; demolished in 1979. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1901. "View of S.W. Block 386, probably D Street side of Baltimore & Potomac Railroad freight station at Maryland & D, 9th & 10th Streets, showing man loading freight into delivery wagon." 5x7 glass negative, D.C. Street Survey Collection. View full size.

July 25, 1901. "Cadillac Memorial Parade -- Detroit bicentenary celebration. Floats in civic & industrial parade." Looming over the Campus Martius, the Majestic Building and one of the city's celebrated "moonlight towers." Detroit Photographic Co. glass negative. View full size.

Detroit circa 1915. "Detroit Creamery Co." At right, the Hotel Tuller; at left, a dealer in Studebaker wagons. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

1905. "Sheriff Street Market, Cleveland, O." Offering fruits, vegetables and a plenitude of pigeons. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

July 1941. "Getting potatoes from bucket in potato race at the Fourth of July celebration in Vale, Oregon." Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

June 1964. New York. "Police officer on horse." Photo by Angelo Rizzuto. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1901. "View of 12th Street N.W., west side, from near G Street." Merchants and tenants seen here include Morton C. Stout, Tailor, at the corner of 12th and F; a dealer in Sundries and Bedding; a hardware emporium whose name we can't quite make out, as well as a [Something] School; the Washington Chess Club; the Sheetz & Bishop Photographic Stock House; C.A. Muddiman & Co., dealer in Lamps and purveyor of Electric and Gas Fixtures; and Dr. William Dieffenderfer, Dentist. 5x7 inch glass negative. View full size.

Duluth, Minnesota, circa 1904. "A Coaching Party (four-horse team with coach on Boulevard Drive)." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

1905. "Men posing with team of horses hauling giant spruce log 30 feet in circumference. Cascade Mountains, Washington." Gelatin silver print by Darius Kinsey. View full size.

November 1940. "Two of Dutton ('Dut') Calleb's sons watering the mule. Southern Appalachian Project near Barbourville, Knox County, Kentucky." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.