June 1941. Sawmill and smokestack at the Greensboro Lumber Co. in Greensboro, Georgia. View full size. 35mm Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano.

December 29, 1923. "Horse Christmas Party" at the Washington, D.C., Animal Rescue League. View full size. National Photo Company Collection.

December 1942. Train going over the hump at the Chicago & North Western Proviso Yard. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano.

Pour this on your pancakes, it's that sweet: "Christmas Story" from 1923 or 1924. National Photo Company Collection. All together now: Awww.

November 1942. Columbia Steel at Geneva, Utah. Servicing one of the floodlights that turn night into day on the construction site of a new steel plant needed for the war effort. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Andreas Feininger.

April 1940. Shacktown in Dubuque, Iowa. Many residents keep a cow or a few chickens. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by John Vachon for the FSA.

December 1900. Christmas tree in the home of Wilbur and Orville Wright at 7 Hawthorn Street in Dayton, Ohio, three years before their famous flight. 4x5 dry-plate glass negative by the Wright Brothers. View full size. There's a lot of detail here for fans of old-school Christmas decoration. Zoom the gifts. Update: Niece Bertha is shown here playing with the dish set in a different room or house.

October 1942. North American Aviation B-25 medium bomber 41-12823 over the mountains near Inglewood, California. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Mark Sherwood for the Office of War Information. View full size.

Spring 1943. Taos County, New Mexico. The J.D. Leon general store in Cerro. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by John Collier. View full size | Say hi to the dogs.

Christmas shoppers in New York City. Photo from the Bain News Service collection, between 1910 and 1915. View full size.

Two Hopi girls sit on the ground eating melons. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, c. 1900. View full size.

May 1942. Amusement park outside Southington, Connecticut. View full size. Medium-format nitrate negative by Fenno Jacobs, Farm Security Administration.

January 1942. Young woman at the community laundry Saturday afternoon. Farm Security Administration camp at Robstown, Texas. View full size. 35mm Kodachrome transparency by Arthur Rothstein for the FSA.

June 1943. Maneuvering in close formation at the Civil Air Patrol base at Bar Harbor, Maine. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by John Collier.