August 1941. "House in Elgin, Illinois." The residence at 282 Anystreet. Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

August 1941. "Child buying bottle of milk. Duluth Milk Company. Duluth, Minnesota." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

August 1941. "Defense worker who is on night shift. During the day he works on the new home which he is building. Detroit, Michigan." Acetate negative by John Vachon. View full size.

March 1942. "Chicago, Illinois. Provident Hospital. Dr. S.J. Jackson, intern, ready to assist in an operation." Acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.

August 1941. "Son of Mr. Nichols, defense worker from Cass City, Michigan, now living in a trailer at Edgewater Park near Ypsilanti. Mr. Nichols works in the Ford bomber plant." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

March 1942. "Alfred MacMillan, Pullman porter resting in the men's washroom aboard the 'Capitol Limited' bound for Chicago." Acetate negative by Jack Delano. View full size.

November 1953. "Scrabble inventor Alfred Butts & promoter James Brunot posed with oversized game." Acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein from photos for the Look magazine assignment "For Women Only -- Word Rage." View full size.

Los Angeles, 1954. "Walt Disney with Mickey Mouse stuffed toy astride large world globe." Color transparency from photos by Earl Theisen for the Look magazine assignment "Here's your first view of Disneyland," a year before it opened in Anaheim. View full size.

September 10, 1957. "Integrated classroom at Anacostia High School, Washington, D.C." 35mm acetate negative by Warren K. Leffler for U.S. News & World Report. View full size.

January 1900. "Kop-kop-ki-hi (White Cottonwood). Photo shows Charley Van Pelt, a Yakama Indian man, half-length portrait, seated, facing right." Gelatin silver print by Lee Moorhouse (1850-1926) of Pendleton, Oregon. View full size.

February 1953. "Ernest and Mary Hemingway in Land Rover during safari in Kenya." Color transparency by Earl Theisen. Look magazine archive, Library of Congress. View full size.

February 1956. "Singer-actress Elaine Malbin, who performs in television production as Joan of Arc, in a gym vocalizing while using exercise equipment under the instruction of Joseph Pilates." Color transparency from photos by John Vachon for Look magazine. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1928. "C&P Tel. Co." Officers of the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company. Do we have a quorum? National Photo Company glass negative. View full size.

February 1928. Washington, D.C., or vicinity. "Southern Railway, interior of car." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.

August 1941. "Bean picker. Shawano County, Wisconsin." Our Lady of Legumes. Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.