At noon the Texas Cowboy Band from Simmons College in Abilene played for Mrs. Hoover, later also playing for the President.

March 5, 1929. "Cowboy Band serenades President and Mrs. Hoover at White House following Inauguration." National Photo glass negative. View full size.

September 12, 1946. Washington, D.C. "Showroom at Superior Motors. Client: Griffith-Consumers Co." Step into the FUTURE today with the Packard Clipper! 8x10 acetate negative by Theodor Horydczak. View full size.

"The Dennis, Atlantic City, 1901." Decades before The Donald came to town. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

April 1954. New York. "Actress Cloris Leachman at home with husband George Englund and baby Adam." The future Oscar and Emmy winner would be coming soon to the big screen in the 1955 noir classic Kiss Me Deadly. 35mm negative from photos by Phillip Harrington for Look magazine. View full size.

New Jersey circa 1901. "Coleman House, Asbury Park." Fringe Festival in progress. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

May 1943. Arlington, Virginia. "Reading the Sunday paper at Arlington Farms, duration residence halls for women war workers." Medium format nitrate negative by Esther Bubley for the Office of War Information. View full size.

July 1937. "Old Negress of Greene County, Georgia." Medium format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.

San Francisco circa 1925. "Oakland 6 Coupe." Ladder optional at extra cost. 5x7 glass negative by Christopher Helin. View full size.

Ecorse, Michigan, 1905. "S.S. William G. Mather, stern view after the launch." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Circa 1908. "Steel ingots, Homestead Steel Works, Homestead, Pennsylvania." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

"Almas Welcomes A.A.O.N.M.S." The Washington, D.C., Masonic temple's hello to potentates of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine during the Shriners convention of May 1923. 4x5 glass negative. View full size.

March 1943. "Crossing the almost-dry bed of the Canadian River along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad in Texas." Medium-format negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.

March 31, 1941. "Robert Glassford residence in Hobe Sound, Florida. Living room, to window. Alice Morgan Carson, architect; Van der Gracht & Kilham, associated architect." Large-format acetate negative by Gottscho-Schleisner. View full size.

1901. "Steamer Priscilla, Fall River Line." A the time of its launch in 1894, the 1,500-passenger Priscilla was the largest sidewheeler afloat. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

San Francisco circa 1917. "Cole Eight Toursedan at Golden Gate Park." Latest epistle in the Shorpy Bible of Brobdingnagian Broughams. View full size.