Fall River, Massachusetts, circa 1910. "Barnard and Wampanoag Mills, Quequechan River." Two historic textile mills. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

March 1936. "Steel mill workers' houses, company owned. Vicinity of Birmingham, Alabama." 8x10 nitrate negative by Walker Evans for the U.S. Resettlement Administration. View full size.

Memphis, Tennessee, circa 1910. "Confederate Park and Front Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

1902. "Characteristic employees' home, National Cash Register, Dayton, O." Along with two characteristic employees. 8x10 inch glass negative by William Henry Jackson. View full size.

October 1942. "Long lines of A-20 attack bombers roll ceaselessly, night and day, through the Douglas Aircraft plant at Long Beach, California. The A-20 is used by the American Air Force and the Royal Air Force (RAF) for hedge-hopping and strafing operations against ground troops and installations -- also for reconnaissance work and night fighting. It is armed for its several duties with light and heavy caliber guns in varying combinations." 4x5 acetate negative by Alfred Palmer for the Office of War Information. View full size.

Grand Rapids, Michigan, circa 1908. "Phoenix Furniture Co., Fulton and Summer Sts." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

November 1942. "Hanna furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation, Detroit, Michigan. Coke being pushed into a quenching car." 4x5 inch Kodachrome transparency by Arthur S. Siegel for the Office of War Information. View full size.

Circa 1901. "Water tower and shops entrance -- Pullman Palace Car Co., Pullman, Ill's." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

October 1940. East Hartford, Connecticut. "New type of plating machine being used at the Hamilton Standard Propeller Corporation. It automatically dips the part into the proper solutions for the proper length of time." Acetate negative by Jack Delano. View full size.

January 1941. "At one of the rolling machines in the Washington Tinplate Company. Washington Pennsylvania." Acetate negative by Jack Delano. View full size.

January 1941. "Interior of abandoned Howard Stove Works in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania." Acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

January 1941. "Busload of steelworkers going home. Aliquippa, Pennsylvania." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

January 1941. "Inside the abandoned Howard Stove Works, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania." Medium format negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

January 1941. "Punch press at the Washington Tinplate Works. Washington, Pennsylvania." Acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

Detroit circa 1911. "National Biscuit Co." Manufacturers of the once-ubiquitous Uneeda Biscuit as well as its obliviated sibling, the Uneeda Jinjer Wayfer. (Proximity notwithstanding, something tells us that no amount of glib sloganeering will ever turn Byers Full Weight Wrought Iron Pipe into an impulse purchase.) Detroit Publishing glass negative. View full size.