January 1940. "Buckets placed in room to catch water from leaky ceiling in a house in Mount Washington district. Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania." Photo by Jack Delano. View full size.

January 1940. "Woman in dilapidated old house in the Mount Washington district of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. She is blind in one eye and her other one is going bad too. She expressed the hope that she would lose her sight completely so she could get some money from blind pension." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano. View full size.

January 1941. "Steelworkers of the Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, waiting for a bus to go home at the end of the afternoon shift." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano. View full size.

September 1941. "Abandoned farmhouse in the dry land area of the Sandhills northeast of Scottsbluff, Nebraska." Acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.

June 1939. "Hotel bedroom. Elkins, West Virginia." The Bare Bulb Arms hopes you enjoy your stay in the Edward Hopper Suite. Acetate negative by John Vachon. View full size.

July 1939. Washington, D.C. "Parking lot for government employees, and buildings being torn down to make room for parking lot." Medium format negative by John Vachon. View full size.

Bethesda, Maryland, circa 1940. "National Naval Medical Center, front from left." Part of the hospital complex known today as Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. 8x10 inch acetate negative by Theodor Horydczak. View full size.

June 1943. "Arlington, Virginia. Mirrors over the dressing table conceal a cabinet which gives girls extra space for their cosmetics, etc., at Arlington Farms, a residence for women who work in the government for the duration of the war." Medium-format negative by Esther Bubley for the Office of War Information. View full size.

1936. Beaufort County, North Carolina. "Rectory of St. Thomas' Church at Bath." 8x10 inch acetate negative by Frances Benjamin Johnston. View full size.

July 1939. "Boy living in camp near May Avenue, Oklahoma City. Photographs show exterior and interior of shacks, tents, other makeshift shelter in May Avenue camp which is partially under bridge and adjacent to city dump and hog wallow. Squalor, filth, vermin in which poverty-stricken inhabitants dwell. Water supplied by shallow wells and water peddler. Piles of rubbish and debris in which children and adults have injured feet. Privies. Families eating food from vegetable dumps, packing houses and discarded from hospital. Children clothed in gunny sacks. Malnourished babies. Sick people. Cooking, washing, ironing, patching. Improvised chicken coop. Corn patch." Acetate negative by Russell Lee. View full size.

Washington, D.C., between February 1901 and December 1903. "Emerson, Mrs. R.B." 5x7 inch glass negative from the C.M. Bell portrait studio. View full size.

March 1939. "Detail of bottle caps decorating abandoned theater. Quemado, Texas." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.

November 1942. "Bingham Canyon, Utah. Signalman of the Utah Copper Company at its open-pit mine workings." Photo by Andreas Feininger, Office of War Information. View full size.

February 1943. "Moreno Valley, Colfax County, New Mexico. William Heck's wife getting supper." Nitrate negative by John Collier for the Office of War Information. View full size.

October 1939. "Insignia of nationally affiliated tourist courts. Corpus Christi, Texas." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.