"Watts, Miss -- between February 1901 and December 1903." Portrait of a well-rounded ingenue. 5x7 glass negative from the C.M. Bell studio in Washington, D.C. View full size.

June 1941. "The family of Clinton J. Stewart, FSA borrower. White Plains, Greene County, Georgia." Yet another example of Jack Delano's stylized portraiture of Farm Security Administration clients. Avant-gardeners, to coin a phrase. View full size.

September 1940. "St. Mary's County, Maryland. Negro Farm Security Administration clients and their homes -- Mr. and Mrs. Dyson [John and Louise], aged rehabilitation borrowers. Mr. Dyson was born into slavery over eighty years ago." Photo by John Vachon. View full size.

Honolulu circa 1909. "Scotch-Hawaiian boy." Gelatin silver print by Caroline Haskins Gurrey (1875-1927), known for her portraits of mixed-race Hawaiian youths. View full size.

April 1941. "Mrs. Henry Dukes, wife of tenant farmer and FSA borrower. She has about nine children and has been to hospital suffering from cancer. Heard County, Georgia." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

August 1941. "Son of a dairy farmer near Rutland, Vermont." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

1935. "Actor Herman Brix, now named Bruce Bennett, played Tarzan in 1930s." RKO Radio Pictures photo from the 1948 Look magazine article "Princeton-Bred Tarzan." View full size.

Washington, D.C., between February 1901 and December 1903. "Emerson, Mrs. R.B." 5x7 inch glass negative from the C.M. Bell portrait studio. View full size.

Washington, D.C., between January 1891 and January 1894. "Beall, Nellie." And her little dog, too. 5x7 inch glass negative from the C.M. Bell portrait studio. View full size.

Washington, D.C., between February 1901 and December 1903. "Wink, Longley (crosswise)." 5x7 glass negative from the C.M. Bell portrait studio. View full size.

Circa 1902. "Sam Peths [?]." 5x7 inch glass negative from the C.M. Bell portrait studio in Washington, D.C. View full size.

Circa 1902. "Miss K. Weston." Head and shoulders above the rest. 5x7 inch glass negative from the C.M. Bell portrait studio in Washington, D.C. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1917. "B.J. Cullen." Whose piercing gaze COMPELS YOU to further identify him in the comments below! National Photo Company glass negative. View full size.

"Unknown woman in nurse's uniform -- between 1873 and ca. 1916." 5x7 inch glass negative from the C.M. Bell portrait studio in Washington, D.C. View full size.

New York, 1922. "New and especially posed photo of Mrs. Charles H. Sabin, wife of the president of the Guaranty Trust Company of New York, and her two sons, P. Morton Smith and James H. Smith." Mrs. Sabin, the former Pauline Joy Morton, was along with her husband a leader in the movement to repeal Prohibition. Underwood & Underwood photo. View full size.