September 1, 1900. "Taylor about to drive from 1st tee across the Ammonoosuc River, first round. Mount Pleasant House, White Mountains." British golfer J.H. Taylor at the famed New Hampshire resort. 8x10 glass negative. View full size.

Circa 1900. "Group at the Balsams. Dixville Notch, White Mountains, New Hampshire." The hotel staff, all of whom are upstairs these days. View full size.

New Orleans circa 1903. "Old Absinthe House and Bourbon Street." (*Hic*) 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

My mother outside her home in Dallas with our golden retriever Nikki and my dad's 1967 Ford Mustang. View full size.

August 1864. Petersburg, Virginia. "Commissioned and non-commissioned officers of Cos. C and D, 1st Massachusetts Cavalry." Happy Veterans Day from Shorpy. Wet plate glass negative; photographs from the main Eastern theater of the war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865. View full size.

Arlington, Virginia, 1917. "U.S. Army motorcycle and sidecar at Fort Myer." Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. View full size.

My mother's parents are seen here getting ready to drive home to Sacramento after a weekend visit in 1964. We lived in the San Francisco East Bay hills for over 20 years and this house had a wonderful panoramic view of the Bay. San Francisco can be seen in the left distance as can the Golden Gate Bridge in the distance at right. Grandpa's car was a 1958 Cadillac - he was a Cadillac man for years. The car down the street is a c.1954 Nash Ambassador. As a toddler I would stand out on our deck and stare out at that incredible view. View full size.

February 1940. "Auto transport passing through Eufaula, Oklahoma." Now playing at the Chief: "Hunchback of Notre Dame." 35mm nitrate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

June 29, 1925. "Dr. H.C. Hayes of U.S. Naval Research Lab, Bellevue, D.C." I'll bet that knob goes up to 11. National Photo Company glass negative. View full size.

"A.J. Smith Construction Co." An industrial building somewhere in Detroit circa 1912. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

The Jersey Shore circa 1910. "Bathers at Atlantic City." Many of them gamely striking a pose for the camera as they peer into the existential void. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

May 1938. "John Pope, son of farmer, at Irwinville Farms, Georgia." Indoor plumbing was an improvement for many of the sharecropper families resettled here by the government during the Dust Bowl years of the Great Depression. Photo by John Vachon for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.

New York circa 1905. "Coney Island -- Luna Park promenade." Elephants on parade. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

April 1938. "Lodge hall in Guilford County, North Carolina." The Jr. O.U.A.M., or Order of United American Mechanics. Which, by the look of things, no longer "meets each 1st & 3rd Sat night." Photo by John Vachon. View full size.

March 1936, somewhere in Georgia. "Tourist cabins." Medium-format nitrate negative by Walker Evans for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.