July 16, 1918. "Alex, a fourteen-year old working boy in St. Etienne, France (last seen here), was found intently studying the playground exhibit at the Children's Welfare Exposition of the American Red Cross. He has been working since 11 years of age, and said: 'On account of the high cost of living, I now get four and a half francs a day'." 5x7 inch glass negative by Lewis Wickes Hine for the American National Red Cross. View full size.

June 14, 1918. "In a corridor of the American Military Hospital No. 1 at Neuilly, France, which has been filled with beds to accommodate the overflow of wounded." 5x7 inch glass negative by Lewis Wickes Hine for the American National Red Cross. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1918. "District National Bank, exterior, G Street N.W." Scrubbing in progress, or a new addition? 8x6 inch glass negative, National Photo Company. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1919, somewhere along M Street. "Big naval gun of type used in France." These 14-inch, 50-caliber railway guns, deployed to France toward the end of World War I, had a range of 24 miles. More information here, here and here. As well as on this plaque. 8x6 inch glass negative, National Photo Company Collection. View full size.

November 4, 1924. "Election night crowd at Washington Star." Two more "election screens," and an election bullhorn. 8x10 inch glass negative, National Photo Company. View full size.

November 1920. Washington, D.C. "Washington Herald election screen." The screen being white sheets hung from this frame on election night, with wire-service voting results projected onto them from a stereopticon -- a practice dating back at least to the 1890s in cities across the United States, and which gradually died out with the advent of broadcast radio. Mold-flecked 4x5 inch glass negative from the National Photo Company Collection. View full size.

September 1918. "Base Hospital 41, Saint-Denis, France. 'I'm Joe from Missouri. Please tell my girl I'm all right.' The Red Cross Lady lends a hand -- Red Cross nurse writes a letter for an American soldier whose right arm is disabled." 5x7 inch glass negative by Lewis Wickes Hine for the American National Red Cross. View full size.

September 1938. "Decorations in back room of bar. ('The things that take you to HELL.') Raceland, Louisiana." Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

September 1938. "Interior views of barrooms. Decoration painted by itinerant artist in back room of bar. Raceland, Louisiana." Acetate negative by Russell Lee for the FSA. View full size.

Ypsilanti, Michigan, 1958. "Willow Run Airport. Interior. Concourse. Albert Kahn and Minoru Yamasaki, architects." Acetate negative by Balthazar Korab. View full size.

March 1973. "Petoskey, Michigan. Kitchen of the Walter O. Briggs house. William Henry Kessler, architect." 35mm Kodachrome by the Balthazar Korab Studio. View full size.

Chicago circa 1955. "Frederick C. Robie house, Hyde Park. Exterior." Acetate negative by the architectural photographer Balthazar Korab (1926-2013). View full size.

        Completed in 1910, the Robie House is the consummate expression of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Prairie style. Robie House sparked a revolution in residential architecture that still reverberates today and is considered one of the most important buildings in architectural history. The house is a masterpiece of the Prairie style and a forerunner of modernism in architecture. -- Frank Lloyd Wright Trust

March 1940. "Berlin, New Hampshire, papermill town inhabited largely by French-Canadians and Scandinavians." Acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the FSA. View full size.

December 1937. "Abandoned store in Chaneysville, Pennsylvania, once a prosperous mining town." Photo by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

June 1939. "Cowhand at the Quarter Circle 'U' Brewster-Arnold Ranch, Montana." Acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.