August 1956. "Teenagers at a dance party in Southampton, N.Y." Medium format negative from photos for the Look magazine assignment "Young Have New Ideas: They Like to Dress Up." Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Collection. View full size.

August 1941. "Dude girl with two cowboys at a Saturday night dance in Birney, Montana." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.

January 1941. "Sarasota, Florida, trailer park. Students coming from school in the afternoon." The lovely lasses last seen here in a different film format. Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

September 1952. "Portrait of Broadway entertainer Helen Gallagher in dance pose." Color transparency by Arthur Rothstein for Look magazine. View full size.

Chicago, 1893. "Actress Lillian Russell (1860-1922), full-length portrait, seated on tiger skin." Photo by William McKenzie Morrison. View full size.

June 1956. "Women modeling fall and winter clothing at Lever House, New York." Medium format color transparency from photos by Gleb Derujinsky for the Look magazine assignment "Shape of Things to Come." View full size.

May 1942. "Philadelphia Quartermaster Corps. The tradition of Betsy Ross is being kept alive in this Quartermaster Corps depot, where a young woman worker assists in the creation of American flags for military activities." Happy Flag Day from Shorpy! 4x5 inch acetate negative by Howard Liberman for the Office of War Information. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1923. "Janet Moffett, debutante daughter of Rear Admiral Moffett." 5x7 inch glass negative, Harris & Ewing Collection. View full size.

May 1939. Washington, D.C. "Crossing F Street in front of Garfinckel's department store on 14th Street N.W." Medium format acetate negative. View full size.

"Second International Pageant of Pulchritude and Eighth Annual Bathing Girl Revue -- Galveston, Texas -- May 21-22-23, 1927." Panorama by Joseph M. Maurer. View full size.

        Doris Day, the freckle-faced movie actress whose irrepressible personality and golden voice made her America’s top box-office star in the early 1960s, died on Monday at her home in Carmel Valley, California. She was 97.

— New York Times

September 1953. "Singer-actress Doris Day on the set of the film musical Calamity Jane." Color transparency for the Look magazine assignment "Doris Day." View full size | More Doris

February 1943. "Soldier and his girl waiting for a train at Chicago Union Station." Photo by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.

December 1941. "San Juan, Puerto Rico. In a dress factory." Medium format negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

1940. "Farm family having Fourth of July fish fry along the Cane River near Natchitoches, Louisiana." Photo by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.

April 1947. New York. "Chirp discusses life while getting a massage" is the caption for this revealing photo of the unjustly obscure jazz singer Gloria King. Medium format negative by William Gottlieb for Down Beat. View full size.