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March 1943. "John Phillips enroute to Mobile, Alabama, on U.S. Highway 29 near Greenville, Alabama." Acetate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.
Detroit circa 1910. "People's State Bank, Fort and Shelby Streets." Designed by McKim, Mead & White. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
The Detroit River circa 1911. "View of Belle Isle Bridge, taken from East Jefferson Avenue and looking toward Belle Isle." 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Detroit circa 1927. "Dr. Higgins, exterior bldg." At the corner of Warren Avenue and Manor Street. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
March 1943. "Charlotte, North Carolina. Sunshine Biscuit trucks." From the "Thousand Window Bakeries." Acetate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.
March 1943. "Charlotte, North Carolina. Gasoline truck making a delivery at a filling station." Acetate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.
March 1943. "Charlotte, North Carolina. Beer wagon." At the Charlotte Bowling Center on West First Street. Acetate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.
March 1943. "Jim Bishop and Joe Crow, drivers for the Associated Transport Company, eating dinner at a truckers' stop on U.S. Highway 29 near the Alabama-Georgia state line." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.
March 1943. "Truck transportation from Baltimore to New Orleans. Evergreen, Alabama -- refueling a Montgomery-to-Mobile truck at 3 a.m." Less than a hundred miles to go. Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.
March 1943. "Charlotte, North Carolina. Truck and warehouse district." Starring A&P & G&H. Acetate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.
March 1943. "Charlotte, North Carolina (vicinity). Filling station on a highway out of town." Acetate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.
April 1943. "Detroit, Michigan. A section of a boiler on a flatcar." Our third and final look. 4x5 inch acetate negative by Arthur S. Siegel for the Office of War Information. View full size.
April 1943. "Detroit, Michigan. A huge pipe section loaded on a flatcar." 4x5 inch acetate negative by Arthur Siegel for the Office of War Information. View full size.
April 1943. "Detroit, Michigan. Freight cars in railyard seen from above." 4x5 inch acetate negative by Arthur Siegel for the Office of War Information. View full size.
April 1943. "Detroit. Transportation of U.S. Army equipment. Amphibian jeeps waiting to be loaded on trucks." Photo by Arthur Siegel, Office of War Information. View full size.