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Washington, D.C., circa 1924. "U.S. Patent Office Building, Ninth and F Streets N.W." Now the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. 8x10 glass negative by Harris & Ewing. View full size.
New York circa 1922. "Purcell." The stage actor Charles Purcell and his Cadillac. 5x7 inch glass negative, Bain News Service / George Grantham Bain Collection. View full size.
Manhattan circa 1907. "New York, N.Y. -- Plaza Hotel, Grand Army Plaza and W. 58th Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Detroit circa 1907. "Looking up Woodward Avenue from the Campus Martius." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Chattanooga, Tennessee, circa 1907. "Fountain Square and courthouse." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
September 1943. "Columbus, Ohio. An old model bus, of the type which would ordinarily have been scrapped but is now being rebuilt because of the shortage of buses, parked in Columbus." Acetate negative by Esther Bubley for the Office of War Information. View full size.
The Philadelphia Pipe Bending Company, founded in 1880, is still in operation today. Here we see two workers standing inside some large coils with advertising signage. 6½ x 8½ inch glass negative. View full size.
March 1943. "Sam Bens and Noah Booher, drivers for Associated Transport Company, having dinner with a textile mill truck driver at a highway stop along U.S. Route 11 near Wytheville, Virginia." Acetate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.
March 1943. "Truck transportation from Baltimore to New Orleans. A truck and trailer in Baltimore." Acetate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.
March 1943. "Vaughn, New Mexico. One of the 5000 Class Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad freight locomotives about to leave on the run to Clovis, New Mexico." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.
March 1943. "Kiowa, Kansas. An Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe rail detector car. These cars are actually traveling scientific instruments, which not only detect faulty rails but also record the place and extent of the defect." Photo by Jack Delano, Office of War Information. View full size.
April 1943. "Baltimore, Maryland. A local delivery truck (last seen here) on South Howard Street." Acetate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.
March 1943. "Baltimore, Maryland. Trucks in the wholesale district." At the Chair Exchange on South Howard Street. Photo by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.
April 1943. "Detroit, Michigan. Boarded-up pumps at a closed gas station." Medium format acetate negative by Arthur S. Siegel for the Office of War Information. View full size.
March 1943. "Bob Daugherty, a driver for the Associated Transport Company, at the wheel of a Brown truck on U.S. Highway Route 29 near Culpeper, Virginia." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.