September 1942. Canfield, Ohio. "Mrs. Frank Rogers looking at a tray of blanched pencil pod beans on the dryer on top of a coal and wood range. The beans will dehydrate in the dryer." Also a tin tray of plums waiting to turn into prunes. Photo by Ann Rosener for the Office of War Information. View full size.

November 1942. "Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Newsman at Center Square on a rainy market day." Photo by Marjory Collins, Office of War Information. View full size.

April 13, 1959. "Cross County Center. Yonkers, Westchester County, New York. Dusk. Lathrop Douglass, client." Fanny Farmer, Woolworth's, Lerner Shops -- it's hard to know where to begin! Gottscho-Schleisner photo. View full size.

November 1942. "Chicago. In the locomotive repair shops at an Illinois Central Railroad yard." Photo by Jack Delano, Office of War Information. View full size.

Detroit, summer 1941. "Girls playing cards and drinking Coca-Cola." The card table seems to have turned in this seventh installment of Arthur Siegel's mysterious photos for the Office of War Information. View full size.

1957. "The Birmingham Special gets the highball at Rural Retreat, Virginia." Gelatin silver print by O. Winston Link. View full size.

May 1943. Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C. "Encased in a body and leg cast, this soldier must have constant care. Second Lieutenant Frances Bullock, Army nurse, helps him to a drink of fruit juice." Medium format nitrate negative by Ann Rosener for the Office of War Information. View full size.

"Dale and pumpkin, 1962." Dale, last seen at the reunion, now in the pumpkin patch. From the Kermy & Janet Kodachromes I found on eBay. View full size.

Circa 1907. "Holland Hotel, Fishkill-on-Hudson, N.Y." Backstop for our sidewalk athletes. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

        The six Saint-Gaudens statues, each weighing 22 tons, which are to grace the facade of the Union Station, are now being placed on pedestals at the tops of the entrance columns. Each of the statues was loaded upon a flat car for shipment to this city, and 20 horses drew the dray which hauled the first one to the station from the railway yards.    -- Washington Post, Oct. 27, 1912

The Greek philosopher Thales, representing electricity, one of Louis St. Gaudens' six statues symbolizing "The Progress of Railroading" at Union Station in Washington, D.C. Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. View full size.

1953. "Actor John Wayne in costume during filming of Hondo." Photo by Maurice Terrell for the Look magazine article "Big John." View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1928. "Semmes Motor Co. -- Consumers Co. coal truck." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.

December 1942. "Boeing aircraft plant, Seattle. Production of B-17 'Flying Fortress' bombers. Routing and labeling electrical wires on template prior to installation." Photo by Andreas Feininger, Office of War Information. View full size.

October 1939. "Home of one member of Ola self-help sawmill co-op, Gem County, Idaho. 'She likes to sit in the door and watch the geese'." Seen earlier here. Photo by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

Toledo, Ohio, circa 1905. "Summit Street." Home to cut-rate cigars and a bunch of bananas. 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.