June 1941. "Change of shift at Pratt & Whitney United Aircraft. East Hartford, Connecticut." The sign: DON'T LEAN ON GLASS. Acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.

June 1941. "Daughter of Frank Robbins, United Aircraft employee who lives in trailer with his wife and four children because of the housing shortage. East Hartford, Connecticut." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.

September 1941. "Telephone sign along highway. Judith Basin, Great Falls, Montana." Acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

"Las Vegas 1951 -- Las Vegas Club." The latest Kodachrome noir from the camera of our roving western correspondent Don Cox. View full size.

February 1969. "Night Traffic." This Kodachrome of Oceanside from a San Diego Freeway overpass is our latest posthumous dispatch from the camera of Don Cox, courtesy of his friend and "Birth of Hot-Rodding" co-author Robert Genat. View full size.

November 1940. "City Hall after a snowstorm in Norwich, Connecticut." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

November 1940. "Boys in the schoolhouse in Ledyard, Connecticut, working on the school newspaper." Title of their typescript: "A Happy Christmas for Tom." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

March 1943. "Washington, D.C. Riding on a streetcar." Medium format nitrate negative by Esther Bubley for the Office of War Information. View full size.

October 1942. "U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland. Boxing." Nitrate negative by Lieutenant Whitman for the Office of War Information. View full size.

October 1939. "Corpus Christi, Texas. Boomtown areas around Naval Air Training Base. Office of tourist courts." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee. View full size.

October 1939. "Kitchen on FSA client farm home near Bradford, Vermont. Orange County." Acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

March 1940. "Part of the parade which opened the Fat Stock Show. San Angelo, Texas." Acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

March 1940. San Angelo, Texas. "Watching the parade which opened the Fat Stock Show." Acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

March 1940. "Entrance to farm in San Patricio County, Texas." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

April 1963. The latest from Don Cox is this Kodachrome of Market Street at Sixth in San Francisco. Now playing at the Loew's Warfield: two 1951 films, "The Great Caruso" and "Show Boat." Across the street: Charlton Heston in the more recent "Diamond Head." View full size.