May 1940. Corn planting in Jasper County, Iowa. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration.

One of a series of chemical-plant smokestacks photographed by Alfred Palmer in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and Akron, Ohio, in 1942. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency for the Office of War Information.

Spring 1865. A closeup of the young ladies shown in an earlier post of the Canal Bridge at Seventh Street in Richmond, Virginia. View full size.

October 1935. "Residents of Amite City, Louisiana." View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Ben Shahn for the Farm Security Administration.

August 1942. "Feeding an SNC advanced training plane its essential supply of gasoline is done by sailor mechanics at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas." View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Howard R. Hollem.

December 1908. Dillon, S.C. Soarbar Seris has worked off and on in the mill for five years, more nights than daytime. Winds at Maples Mills. Gets 70 cents and up. "Reckon I'm about 14." View full size. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine.

October 1938. Musicians playing accordion and washboard in front of a store near New Iberia, Louisiana, the home of Tabasco pepper sauce. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration.

April 1941. "Abandoned building, South Side of Chicago." View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration.

June 1943. Richmondville, New York. Farmland meadow in the Catskill Mountains. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by John Collier.

May 1938. Passing the time outside a crossroads store in Irwinville Farms, Georgia. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by John Vachon for the FSA.

June 17, 1922. Washington, D.C. "Iola Swinnerton and Anna Niebel, winners of the bathing costume contest at the Tidal Basin. Miss Swinnerton, the runner-up, resides at 3125 Mount Pleasant Street N.W.; Miss Niebel, who took first prize, lives at 1370 Harvard Street N.W." National Photo glass negative. View full size.

May 1912. Spartanburg, South Carolina. Tom Polk, "goin' on 13." Prematurely old, works in Beaumont Mill. View full size. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine.

October 1935. Scanned from an uncaptioned 35mm nitrate negative of an unidentified musician and his friends, probably photographed by Ben Shahn in Scotts Run, West Virginia. Anyone recognize them? View full size.

July 1941. Sunday afternoon visitors in Vincennes, Indiana. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration.

July 1939. Person County, North Carolina. A tobacco curing barn ready for "putting in," with fuel stacked on either side. The sticks are fed in through the small openings at the base. Piece of sheet iron on the left is used to cover the opening of the furnace when starting the fire. View full size. Medium-format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration.