November 1913. Shreveport, Louisiana. "Percy Neville, 11 years old. Messenger boy #6 for Mackay Telegraph Company. He has been messenger for different companies for four years. Goes to the Reservation [red light district] every day." View full size. Photograph and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine.

November 1909. "Night scene, Wheaton Glass Works." Blowing bottles in Millville, New Jersey. View full size. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine.

Rat meets rat catcher in New York circa 1920. View full size. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress.

"Mermaid Club, Philadelphia." Members in bathing suits circa 1920. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. View full size.

July 30, 1913, New York. Suffragist Harriot Stanton Blatch in the front seat of a Cole touring car with (from left) Susan Fitzgerald, Emma Bugbee and Maggie Murphy. View full size. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection.

December 1942. Proviso classification yard of the Chicago & North Western Railroad. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano.

September 1908. "Invited guests going to Roosevelt house on foot and by carriage" at Sagamore Hill, the president's estate near Oyster Bay, Long Island. View full size. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection.

Immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, New York. Photo from the George Grantham Bain collection, 1907. View full size.

A Jewish family works on garters in the kitchen of a New York City tenement home. Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine, November, 1912. View full size.

"Portuguese Boy Scouts singing in New Bedford, Massachusetts." Photograph by John Collier, spring 1942. View full size.

An electric refrigerator helps Mrs. Case keep her eggs fresh in Lauderdale County, Alabama. This photograph for the Tennessee Valley Authority was taken by Arthur Rothstein in June, 1942. View full size.

October 1939. "Belzoni, Mississippi, in the Delta area. Negro man entering movie theater by 'Colored' entrance." 35mm nitrate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

The cigar and candy counter at People's Drug Store, 7th and M Streets, Washington, D.C. Photo taken after 1909 by National Photo Company. View full size.

Children playing in street in New York City. From the George Grantham Bain Collection, April 2, 1909. View full size.

An express wagon for "Interstate Commerce" stands ready in New York City. From the George Grantham Bain collection. November 1910. View full size.