July 1939. "In the post office on a Saturday afternoon. Pittsboro, North Carolina." Medium format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange. View full size.

July 1943. Montgomery County, Maryland. "Climbing the ladder to the sliding board at the Glen Echo swimming pool." Medium format nitrate negative by Esther Bubley for the Office of War Information. View full size.

New York circa 1934. "Margaret Bourke-White with her camera atop a stainless steel eagle projecting from the sixty-first floor of the Chrysler Building, overlooking Manhattan and the Hudson River." Gelatin silver print from a photograph by Bourke-White's darkroom assistant Oscar Graubner. Her backdrop is Rockefeller Center's RCA Building, completed in 1933. View full size.

October 1942. Chicago, Illinois. "Salvage. To feed the nation's munitions furnaces, tons of scrap from America's attics and basements are collected every day. Here, a junkman unloads his wagon in a central depot, where the scrap will be segregated and graded for shipment to steel mills." Medium format nitrate negative by Ann Rosener for the Office of War Information. View full size.

San Francisco circa 1930. "Franklin Series 147 'Pirate' Touring Phaeton on Gough Street at Lafayette Park." 5x7 glass negative by Christopher Helin. View full size.

September 1942. "Batavia, New York. Elba Farm Security Administration farm labor camp. An old man who has lived all of his life near Broadway, New York City, and who was taken off relief and sent to the Elba FSA camp to work in the harvest. He said, 'There is so much suffering in the world today that mine doesn't seem so much, and I'm doing my best to help bring in Uncle Sam's crops'." 4x5 nitrate negative by John Collier for the Office of War Information. View full size.

September 1942. "Batavia, New York (vicinity). Tomato harvest on Nesbitt's farm. West Virginia crew of pickers en route to the muck fields." Medium format negative by John Collier for the Office of War Information. View full size.

July 1943. "Greenville, South Carolina. Men of the medical unit of the 25th Service Group simulating the treatment of a gas casualty." Medium format nitrate negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.

June 1943. Oswego, New York. "Children, recruited for farm work, waiting outside the U.S. Employment Service to start work for the summer." Photo by Marjory Collins for the Office of War Information. View full size.

August 1939. "Service station operator in Seminole, Oklahoma." 35mm nitrate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

        Two pumps, no waiting.

September 1943. "Gas station on the bus route between Columbus and Cincinnati." Photo by Esther Bubley for the Office of War Information. View full size.

September 1943. "A Greyhound bus that has been stopped at a filling station to get water between Washington, D.C., and Pittsburgh." Medium format nitrate negative by Esther Bubley for the Office of War Information. View full size.

September 1938. "Cooperative gas station at Greenbelt, Maryland." Photo by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

June 1939. Greene County, Georgia. "Men hanging around crossroads store." 35mm negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the FSA. View full size.

June 1939. "Greensboro, Greene County, Georgia. Playing checkers outside a service station on a Saturday afternoon." 35mm nitrate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.