Lower Manhattan and the East River circa 1901. "Riverfront from the Brooklyn Bridge, New York." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

Savannah, Georgia, in 1915. "View of Bull Street from Broughton Street showing the National Bank of Savannah, Johnson Square, Savannah Bank Building and Hotel Savannah." 5x7 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

New York circa 1900. "Grand Central Station, E. 42nd Street and Vanderbilt Avenue." 8x10 inch glass negative by William Henry Jackson, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

Circa 1905. "Freighter Manda unloading ore, Cleveland, Ohio." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Savannah, Georgia, circa 1905. "Oglethorpe Avenue and Independent Presbyterian Church." A street last glimpsed here, from a slightly different perspective. 5x7 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

Savannah, Georgia, circa 1908. "Oglethorpe Avenue, Chatham Academy and Independent Presbyterian Church." 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Savannah, Georgia, circa 1908. "Bull Street and the Chatham Academy, looking south." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

June 17, 1938. Washington, D.C. "No more hot air in Congress. Two million cubic feet of clean, cool air is delivered to members of Congress each minute by a $3,500,000 air conditioning plant, part of which is shown above. The plant supplies the entire Capitol and the Senate and the new and old House Office Buildings." 4x5 glass negative by Harris & Ewing. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1912. "The New Raleigh." The recently completed Raleigh Hotel at Pennsylvania Avenue and 12th Street N.W., built on the site of the previous Raleigh Hotel. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Chicago circa 1911. "Passenger terminal, Madison Street entrance, Chicago & North Western Railway." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

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"Powerhouse Mechanic and Steam Pump" (1921). One of Lewis Wickes Hine's celebrated "work portraits" made after his decade-long project documenting child labor. View full size.

March 1943. "John Phillips enroute to Mobile, Alabama, on U.S. Highway 29 near Greenville, Alabama." Acetate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.

Detroit circa 1910. "People's State Bank, Fort and Shelby Streets." Designed by McKim, Mead & White. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

The Detroit River circa 1911. "View of Belle Isle Bridge, taken from East Jefferson Avenue and looking toward Belle Isle." 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Detroit circa 1927. "Dr. Higgins, exterior bldg." At the corner of Warren Avenue and Manor Street. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.