May 1903. New York. "Newsboys at Greeley Square." Our title is a word salad plucked fresh from this 8x10 inch glass negative. Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

Detroit circa 1905. "Woodward Avenue north from Jefferson." A phantasmagoria of signage advertising vaudeville, soap, cigars and the mandatory Painless Dental Parlors (your choice of Laughing Gas or "Vitalized Air"). 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. View full size.

1906. "Washington Street -- Vicksburg, Mississippi." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

1903. "Bathers and the Iron Pier -- West Brighton Beach, Coney Island, N.Y." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

Boston, 1900. "Home of Paul Revere, North Square." The British were coming, and the Italians, too. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

April 1942. "Portuguese-American communities in California. Main street (East 14th at Callan) in San Leandro." Our title is in honor of that low-slung, supercharged Graham Hollywood -- one of the decade's quirkier cars -- parked at the curb. Acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Foreign Information Service of the U.S. Office of Coordinator of Information. View full size.

Detroit, 1910. "Michigan Avenue at Griswold Street and Lafayette Boulevard." Where Drs. Kennedy & Kergan's giant electrified sign advertises their MEN CURE. And, across the street, we have Stereopticons and Reflectoscopes. 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size.

April 1942. "Portuguese-American communities in California. Main street in San Leandro." Estudillo Avenue at 14th Street. Acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Foreign Information Service of the U.S. Office of Coordinator of Information. View full size.

1902. "Screw Machine Department, National Cash Register, Dayton, O." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

New York City circa 1905. "The Elevated, Eighth Avenue and W. 110th Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

New York circa 1910. "Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street." Note the radio masts on the roof; the 12 wires strung between the towers, 236 feet apart, are too faint to be seen. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Circa 1913. "Commonwealth Pier No. 5, South Boston, Massachusetts." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

March 1942. "Baltimore, Maryland. Sergeant Franklin Williams, home on leave from Army duty, with his best girl Ellen Hardin, splitting a soda. They met at Frederick Douglass High School." Photo by Arthur Rothstein for the Office of War Information. View full size.

March 1942. "Baltimore, Maryland. Sergeant Franklin Williams, home on leave from Army duty at Fort Bragg, watching his mother put chicken into the oven." Specifically, an Oriole range made by the Standard Gas Equipment Corporation of Baltimore. Medium format acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Office of War Information. View full size.

April 1942. "Swedish postmaster in a small Minnesota town selling defense bonds to Swedish farmers." Acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.