Circa 1913. "Commonwealth Pier No. 5, South Boston, Massachusetts." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

March 1942. "Baltimore, Maryland. Sergeant Franklin Williams, home on leave from Army duty, with his best girl Ellen Hardin, splitting a soda. They met at Frederick Douglass High School." Photo by Arthur Rothstein for the Office of War Information. View full size.

March 1942. "Baltimore, Maryland. Sergeant Franklin Williams, home on leave from Army duty at Fort Bragg, watching his mother put chicken into the oven." Specifically, an Oriole range made by the Standard Gas Equipment Corporation of Baltimore. Medium format acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Office of War Information. View full size.

April 1942. "Swedish postmaster in a small Minnesota town selling defense bonds to Swedish farmers." Acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. 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.

1980. "Shamrock gas pump, old Route 85, Aguilar, Colorado." Color transparency by John Margolies (1940-2016) / John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive. View full size.

May 1942. Ames, Iowa. "Miss Mary Louise Long of Chicago and John Staley of Maryland look up drawings in the files at the landscape architecture building at Iowa State College." Acetate negative by Jack Delano for the U.S. Office of the Coordinator of Information. View full size.

"A tow entering the St. Clair Ship Canal," circa 1905. The Hackett Line tug Home Rule, built in 1890, wrecked in 1924; and the bulk freighter Massachusetts, built in 1882 and wrecked on the St. Lawrence, 1923. At the rear: the tug Frank W. 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size.

June 3, 1922. New York. "Schoolgirls sailing." Recent graduates, their chaperones and a litter of fleabitten furries. 5x7 glass negative, Bain News Service. View full size.

1905. "Along the wharves -- Gloucester, Massachusetts." Starring the schooner Azorian. 8x10 inch glass transparency, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

January 1959. "At the Mill Reef Club in Antigua." 35mm Kodachrome slide by Toni Frissell for the Sports Illustrated assignment "The Antigua Way of Life." View full size.

April 1942. "Provincetown, Massachusetts. Portuguese grocer." Our third visit to Anybody's Market, purveyor of Monarch Finer Foods. 4x5 acetate negative by John Collier. View full size.

April 1942. Provincetown, Massachusetts. "Market in Portuguese fishermen's section." The grocery seen here in the previous post. 4x5 acetate negative by John Collier. View full size.

April 1942. "Provincetown, Massachusetts. Portuguese grocer." 4x5 inch acetate negative by John Collier for the U.S. Office of the Coordinator of Information. View full size.

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.