Detroit circa 1906. "Hotel Cadillac, Washington Boulevard." Last seen here, with a different cast of characters. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. View full size.

Rochester, New York, circa 1906. "Masonic Temple, North Clinton Avenue and Mortimer Street." District headquarters of the Free & Accepted Masons, whose retail tenants include Wunder Tailor, Nusbaum's Lining Store, E.J. Egbert & Co. and Underwood Typewriter. This imposing edifice, completed in 1902, was razed in 1932 to make room for a movie theater parking lot. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Gloucester, Massachusetts (vicinity), circa 1905. "Pergola, North Shore Grill Club, Magnolia." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

New York circa 1907. "Metropolitan Library, Fifth Avenue." The New York Public Library under construction. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Gloucester, Massachusetts (vicinity), circa 1905. "Fisherman's cabin, Shore Road, Magnolia." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

St. Augustine, Florida, circa 1910. "Post Office and Plaza de la Constitucion." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Buffalo, New York, circa 1905. "Post Office on Ellicott Street." Note the numerous gargoyles. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

1906. "Eating cocoanuts -- Nassau, Bahama Islands, British West Indies." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

New York, 1905. "Hall of Records (Surrogate's Courthouse), Chambers and Centre streets." The building two years prior to its completion, minus many of the statues that can be seen in this later view from 1910. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Somewhere mountainous circa 1910. "Young couple on rock holding hands, full-length portrait." 5x7 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Circa 1905. "Italian neighborhood with street market -- Mulberry Street, New York." 5x7 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

1906. "Twenty-Eighth Street, Newport News, Virginia." The go-to place for gadgets like gramophones and "Kodaks." 5x7 inch dry plate glass negative. View full size.

San Francisco circa 1925. "Cole Aero Eight Series 890 touring car on Gough Street." This was the final year for both the marque and its founder, Joseph J. Cole, who died in August 1925. 5x7 inch glass negative by that automotive amanuensis Christopher Helin. View full size.

April 1922. Chicago. "The Singing Valise -- F.W. Dunmore, of the U.S. Bureau of Standards radio laboratory, with radio built in suitcase." Underwood & Underwood photo. View full size.

        CHICAGO, May 19 -- "The Singing Valise," or "Talks-as-it-walks," may be the latest thing in radiotelephone reception, displayed to the amazement of delegates attending the American Institute of Engineers meeting here last month at the Drake Hotel, by F.W. Dunmore of the radio laboratory of the U.S. Bureau of Standards. Incidentally, it may be pointed out that the engineers at their spring meeting are paying a great deal of attention to radio ...

Newark, Ohio, circa 1901. "Jane White with sons Lewis and Maynard at dining table." Gelatin silver print by founding Photo-Secessionist Clarence H. White (1871-1925). View full size.