Detroit, Michigan, circa 1901. "Wayne County Building." This multi-layered municipal confection, completed in 1902, still stands as a monument to the wedding-cake school of architecture. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Photographic Co. View full size.

Springfield, Massachusetts, circa 1912. "Municipal Building and Civil War monument from Court Square." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Havana, 1904. "Muelle Paula (Alameda de Paula)." The Cuban capital's first waterfront promenade. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

Volusia County, Florida, circa 1897. "On the Tomoka." The nice people last glimpsed here. 8x10 inch glass transparency by William Henry Jackson. View full size.

San Francisco, 1922. "Gardner touring car." Yet another Jazz Age marque that died with its sneakers on. 5x7 inch glass negative by Christopher Helin. View full size.

January 1942. "College Station, Texas. Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College. Cow and calf." Medium format acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein. View full size.

Manchester, New Hampshire, circa 1910. "Elm Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Cleveland circa 1910. "Superior Viaduct lift bridge and Cuyahoga River." Another bridge, another flour mill! 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

New York circa 1910. "Williamsburg Bridge and East River waterfront." With a cameo by the Heckers' Flour mill on Water Street. 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. View full size.

New York circa 1911. "The Canyon of Lower Broadway at Bowling Green and Battery Place." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Charleston, South Carolina, circa 1910. "St. Philip's from the old churchyard (Circular Church cemetery)." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Los Angeles circa 1909. "Pacific Mutual Life & Accident Co. building, Sixth and Olive streets." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

1949. Rochester, Minnesota. "Mayo Clinic group of Drs. C.H. Slocumb, E.C. Kendall, P.S. Hench and H.F. Polley, who carried out the research and medical application of Cortisone, a hormone from the cortex of the adrenal gland, which appears to exert a notable effect on patients with rheumatoid arthritis and perhaps certain other related diseases." View full size.

"Organ grinder, New Orleans, 1924." Nitrate negative by Arnold Genthe. View full size.

September 1940. "Miners' union hall. Silverton, Colorado." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.