A well-rounded young lady in dancing costume as photographed in the studio of Fitz Guerin in 1902, the year before his death. View full size.

Lady resident of a St. Paul rooming house. September 1939. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by by John Vachon, Farm Security Administration.

A portrait of a young woman by Fritz W. Guerin, c. 1902. View full size.

A young woman poses as if she is about to dive from diving board. Photograph by Fritz W. Guerin, c. 1902. View full size.

A young woman reclines on a sofa holding a burning cigarette. Photo by Fritz W. Guerin, c. 1902. View full size.

Another view of Fitz Guerin's sailing sisters from 1902. View full size.

Two women, one in men's clothing, on a sailboat in a studio shot. Photo by Fritz W. Guerin, c. 1902. View full size.

A glamour photograph of a girl posing with flowers. Photograph by J. Maurer, c. 1902. View full size.

The title of this 1905 photo by George Lawrence is "Rubbing," with a copyright assigned to Cluett, Peabody & Co., which in the 1930s developed the Sanforization pre-shrink process for cottons. View full size.

This circa 1906 photograph of a young Inuit man doing laundry (titled "Squaw Wanted" — not just politically but ethnographically incorrect, we'd say) is by Goetze of Nome, Alaska. View full size.

Louise Cromwell poses in fox furs, c. 1911. This is likely the wealthy heiress who married General Douglas MacArthur on February 14, 1922. View full size.

Franklin Roosevelt in a portrait dated February 3, 1911, a few days after his 29th birthday. View full size. George Grantham Bain Collection.

A fashion model underwater in the dolphin tank at Marineland, Florida. View full size. A similar image by fashion photographer Toni Frissell was published in Vogue in October 1939. Frissell had a knack for taking photos of women underwater. In 1947 she took another photo at Weeki Wachee Spring, which we posted as Lady in the Water.

A woman wearing bonnet poses on a photo set of a pier with a painting of a fishing boat in the background. Photograph by Fritz W. Guerin, c. 1902. View full size.

June 1938. Nettie Featherston, laborer's wife with three children near Childress, Texas. "I just prayed and prayed and prayed all the time that God would take care of us and not let my children starve." View full size | Audio interview.