The Solomon Siler House in Pike County, Alabama.

May 1939. "Old home in Alabama built about 1850 called 'Silver Place,' owned by Mr. Frazier, now rented by two families." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

May 1939. "Signboard along highway in Alabama." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott; Buick ad by Montgomery Melbourne. View full size.

November 1940. Ansonia, Connecticut. "Taking a temperature reading in the foundry at the Farrell-Birmingham Corporation." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

May 1939. "Negro domestic servant. Atlanta, Georgia." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

New York circa 1948. "Interior decorator Ruby Ross Wood (1881-1950), three-quarter length portrait, seated, at desk." Conway Studios photo. View full size.

May 1939. "Old abandoned plantation home near Monticello, South Carolina." Photo by Marion Post Wolcott, Farm Security Administration. View full size.

September 13, 1950. "Pendulum pounding into a plastic helmet worn for testing by Dr. Charles F. Lombard, director of the University of Southern California Department of Aviation Physiology. Testing is part of a program being worked out to improve equipment, especially headgear for football players, to cut down fatalities and injuries among gridders." Acme Newsphoto. View full size.

October 1957. "Mascots at football game between Colgate 'Red Raiders' and Cornell 'Big Red' university teams." 35mm Kodachrome. View full size.

1891. "Camp Badger, Tulare County, California. End of Mark Twain log, diameter 18 feet. Slab of Giant Sequoia, Kings River Grove (now part of Kings Canyon National Park), California, felled in 1891, to be exhibited in the Natural History Museum in New York." Albumen print by Charles Clifford Curtis. View full size.

1909. "Stevens House golf links, Lake Placid, Adirondack Mountains, New York." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

1909. "A typical house tent, Ray Brook sanatorium, Adirondack Mountains." Taking the "fresh air" cure on the grounds of the New York State Hospital for Incipient Pulmonary Tuberculosis. 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size.

Circa 1909. "Central Station, Saranac Lake, Adirondack Mountains, N.Y." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

1909. "The Berkeley, Saranac Lake, Adirondack Mountains, N.Y." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Feb. 10, 1913. "Washington hikers. Suffragists on bus in New York City, part of the 'hike' to Washington, D.C., which joined the March 3, 1913, National American Woman Suffrage Association parade." 5x7 glass negative. View full size.

Detroit circa 1899. "Hotel Cadillac, Washington Boulevard." At left, the base of an electric arc lamp, part of the city's "moonlight tower" municipal lighting system. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative. View full size.