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.

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.