New York circa 1920. "Hare" is all it says here. Who hare? 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. View full size.

New York circa 1908. "Piers along South Street." Detailed panorama made of three 8x10 glass negatives. Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

New York circa 1910. "Brooklyn. Washington Street from Fulton with Beecher statue." Now Cadman Plaza. 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size.

Circa 1910. "Riverside Park, New York." And the ledge that launched a thousand boys. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Columbus, Ohio, circa 1909. "Aerial view from courthouse." Shorpy, who knows how to have a good time, is celebrating Columbus Day with this detailed panorama made from three 8x10 glass negatives. View full size.

Here I am, Christmas 1964 with my new Tonka dump truck. I vividly remember sitting in the dump bed and riding it down our sloped driveway, bending the bed sides outward. View full size.

1938. "Fairfield (Lynch House). McClellansville vicinity, Charleston County, South Carolina. Structure dates to 1730. Built by the Lynch family. Acquired by Jacob Motte in 1758, and enlarged by him. Related name: Charles C. Pinckney." 8x10 inch acetate negative by Frances Benjamin Johnston. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1917. "Washington Riding Club -- Mrs. Howard." On her high horse. Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. View full size.

Somewhere in South Florida. "Marvin, Goble & deer. December 1961." My dad on the left and Mom in the car. 35mm Kodachrome by Aunt Marty. I found this slide just last week in a Kodak Carousel box labeled "Hunting." View full size.

October 1939. Memphis, Tennessee. "Entrance to a movie house on Beale Street." The double feature: "Rhythm of the Saddle" and Buck Jones in "Law for Tombstone." 35mm nitrate negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.

May 1940. "Cotton Carnival -- Memphis, Tennessee." 35mm nitrate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1919. "Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. garage." Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. View full size.

August 1936. "Family between Dallas and Austin. The people have left their home and connections in South Texas, and hope to reach the Arkansas Delta for work in the cotton fields. Penniless people. No food and three gallons of gas in the tank. The father is trying to repair a tire. Three children. Father says, 'It's tough but life's tough anyway you take it.'" Medium-format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.

June 1936. "Center Market -- Washington, D.C." Medium-format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.

New Orleans circa 1936. "Dufilho Pharmacy, 512 Chartres St." Plus bills of the hand- and -board variety. Photo by Frances Benjamin Johnston. View full size.