Runaways -- real ones, calculated to make your hair stand on end -- will be caught by members of the Traffic Squad. -- N.Y. Times

June 24, 1916. "Police show at Sheepshead Bay Speedway -- rescuing woman from runaway horse." A benefit for "widows and orphans of the men whose names are carried on the Honor Roll." 5x7 glass negative, Bain News Service. View full size.

August 1941. "Tank driver. Fort Belvoir, Virginia." Medium format negative by John Collier. Office of War Information photo collection. View full size.

Portland, Maine, circa 1905. "Grand Trunk Station, India Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

San Francisco circa 1923. "Stutz roadster at Golden Gate Park." Piloted by the lady last seen here. 5x7 glass negative by Christopher Helin. View full size.

Circa 1906. "Suburban station at Petoskey, Michigan." A locomotive of the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad, with a car bearing the names of Little Traverse Bay and Crooked and Walloon Lakes. 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, circa 1908. "Wood Street, looking east." Showing a rare example of the Edison Spigot. 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size.

THE SIGNAL LANTERNS OF

PAUL REVERE

DISPLAYED IN THE STEEPLE OF THIS CHURCH
APRIL 18 1775
WARNED THE COUNTRY OF THE MARCH
OF THE BRITISH TROOPS TO

LEXINGTON AND CONCORD.

Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1915. "Christ Church (Old North)." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Chicago circa 1915."The Santa Fe grain elevator, head of the canal." Pantry for the nation's breadbasket. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative. View full size.

July 1922. Washington, D.C. "Snapped at the Tidal Basin: Mildred Kapleck with her pet opossum, the latest novelty introduced at the bathing beach." Harris & Ewing glass negative for The Washington Post. View full size.

San Francisco circa 1928. "Cadillac five-passenger coupe at Golden Gate Park." 5x7 inch glass negative by Christopher Helin. View full size.

From somewhere in New England circa 1900, it's the group of serious-looking students last seen here, somewhat rearranged and more closely integrated with the greenery. 5x8 inch dry plate glass negative.View full size.

August 1941. "Trains in the Southern Railway terminal in Atlanta, Georgia." Medium format nitrate negative by John Collier. View full size.

August 1941. "Chickens raised by FSA borrowers is good right down to the bone. Sunday dinner for flying cadets at Craig Field, Selma, Alabama." Medium format negative by John Collier for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

Richmond, Calif., circa 1912. "First Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church." Waiting for stucco. 6x8 glass negative by Cheney Photo Advertising Co. View full size.

Somewhere in New England circa 1900. "Children at home." Where some get the comfy couch, and others a dark corner. 5x8 inch glass negative. View full size.