New Jersey circa 1910. "Long Branch bathing beach." You kids turn down that Victrola! 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. View full size.

Long Beach, Long Island, N.Y., circa 1913. "Hazel Reiber." Who was evidently enough of a notable to have her picture taken (twice) by the Bain News Service. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. View full size.

January 18, 1939. Washington, D.C. "'Less taxes, more jobs' reads the poster being pasted up by George H. Davis. It is the first of 25,000 such signs which will be put up all over the nation as part of a drive for reduction in taxes by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. President Davis called in the photographers today to see the first one done right." Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. View full size.

April 1865. "Petersburg, Virginia. Federal soldiers removing artillery from Confederate fortifications." Wet plate glass negative. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1915. "Women's tennis league section leaders." Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. View full size.

Florida circa 1894. "St. George Street, St. Augustine." 8x10 inch glass negative by William Henry Jackson. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1920. "Interior, Wells Corset Shop." Where that hourglass figure is just a whalebone away. National Photo glass negative. View full size.

October 1942. "A new B-25 bomber is brought for a test hop to the flight line at the Kansas City, Kansas, plant of North American Aviation." 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer, Office of War Information. View full size.

Another look at Old Florida circa 1900. "Port Tampa Inn and docks." Detroit Publishing Company glass negative. View full size.

Silver Springs, Florida, circa 1900. "Okeehumkee at wharf on the Oklawaha River." Detroit Publishing Company glass negative. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1920. "Henno Sales Co." Stutz touring car near a "Fire Alarm Box" lamppost on M Street. National Photo glass negative. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1920. "B&B Auto Sales, 14th Street N.W." How much is that Stutz in the window? National Photo Co. glass negative. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1924. "Sanctuary, Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.

Grandmother and mother taken about 1919. View full size.

Circa 1920. "Shad fishing on the Potomac." National Photo Co. View full size.