New Orleans, 1906. "Arcade of Crescent and Tulane Theatres." At the Tulane, the blackface team of McIntyre and Heath headline "The Ham Tree," a musical novelty described by one reviewer as "an amplified vaudeville sketch." 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size.

New York circa 1946. "Portrait of conductor Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) at Carnegie Hall." Acetate negative by William P. Gottlieb. View full size.

July 1942. "Hayti, Missouri. Family of Glen Eaker (seated), superintendent of the local Rural Electrification Administration (REA) cooperative." Medium format acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the U.S. Foreign Information Service. View full size.

August 9, 1942. "Interlochen, Michigan. National music camp where 300 or more young musicians study symphonic music for eight weeks each summer. Reading the funny papers on Sunday morning." Medium format acetate negative by Arthur S. Siegel. View full size.

August 1942. "Interlochen, Michigan. National Music Camp, where some 300 young musicians study symphonic music for eight weeks each summer. Dance jamboree on a Monday night." Acetate negative by Arthur S. Siegel for the U.S. Foreign Information Service. View full size.

August 1942. "Interlochen, Michigan. National music camp where 300 or more young musicians study symphonic music for eight weeks each summer. Three young girls." 4x5 acetate negative by Arthur S. Siegel for the U.S. Foreign Information Service. View full size.

Fall 1900. New York City. "Metropolitan Opera House, Broadway and 39th Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

March 1965. "The King Family -- including the King Sisters, King Kiddies and King Cousins -- with actor Robert Clarke and others on the set of the ABC-TV musical variety series The King Family." 35mm Kodachrome transparency by John Vachon for Look magazine. View full size.

March 1965. "The King Sisters in rehearsal for musical variety series The King Family on ABC-TV." 35mm Kodachrome transparency by John Vachon for Look magazine. View full size.

March 1942. Baltimore, Md. "Sergeant Franklin Williams, home on leave from Army duty at Fort Bragg, singing with sister Sarah, brother Thomas and best girl Ellen Hardin while his sister Annetta plays the piano." Photo by Arthur Rothstein, Office of War Information. View full size.

Spring 1947. "To unite jazz and dance. Choreographer Lee Sherman and dancers in rehearsal -- Radio City Music Hall, New York." Acetate negative by William Gottlieb. View full size.

May 1947. New York. "Vivien Garry and Teddy Kaye at Dixon's." The jazz bassist and her pianist, two-thirds of the Vivien Garry Trio. Acetate negative by William Gottlieb. View full size.

April 1942. "Mr. Oliver Coleman, drummer, looking over some music scores in the study of his apartment on Indiana Avenue. Chicago, Illinois." Acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Foreign Information Service of the U.S. Office of Coordinator of Information. View full size.

September 1942. "Local dance hall in Richwood, Nicholas County, West Virginia. Photos document U.S. Department of Agriculture efforts to recruit adolescents and adults as farm labor to relieve manpower shortage for harvesting New York State crops." 4x5 inch acetate negative by John Collier for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

Nashville, 1962. Portrait by Walden S. Fabry. Annenberg Space for Photography. View full size.

        NASHVILLE, Oct. 4 -- Loretta Lynn, the singer who rose from a hardscrabble upbringing to become the most significant female artist in country music history, died today at her home in Hurricane Mills. She was 90. -- Nashville Tennessean