March 1941. "Overcrowded Navy towns -- housing in Norfolk, Virginia." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

The latest dispatch from Don Cox is this Kodachrome dated October 1958. Judging by the mayhem on the roof below I'd say we're somewhere in the Wild, Wild West, where the men are men and the Thunderbirds are pink. (Yes, it's Reno. Also: Cash for Cars!) View full size.

Washington, D.C. "View from Randall School of H Street S.W., between Half & First Streets, in 1901 showing coal yard and old homes near railroad station. Houses have McKinley memorials. Portrait of President William McKinley draped in black is visible on the house on the left. A flag is at half mast on the right." Along with at least two other McKinley portraits. 8x10 inch glass negative, D.C. Street Survey Collection. View full size.

Washington, D.C., or vicinity circa 1901. "Group of laborers on railcar digging through dirt pile along track bed." 6x8 inch glass negative, D.C. Street Survey Collection. View full size.

Circa 1901. "Coaling station and water tank, C. & A. R.R., Mazonia, Illinois." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

Circa 1901. "Station at Cayuga, Ill's." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

        A better-quality version of an image first posted here in 2008.

Brooklyn, N.Y., circa 1910. "Atlantic Avenue subway entrance." Plus an elevated railway and streetcar tracks. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. View full size.

Circa 1897. "Cane fields in Louisiana." Glass negative by William Henry Jackson. View full size.

June 30, 1950. "Cleveland Municipal Stadium during Cleveland-Detroit night baseball game." Photo by Carl McDow. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Collection. View full size.

May 1942. Washington, D.C. "Wartime construction in vicinity of federal government buildings -- lower 14th Street improvement project. Construction of a bridge and road near Independence Avenue and 14th and 16th Streets. Steel piles to be driven as supports for bridge structure." Photo by John Ferrell for the Office of War Information. View full size.

Circa 1905. "New York City, Snap Shatow, 42nd Street, showing entrance to Grand Central Station." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

1902. "Lizzie Bourne monument, Mount Washington, White Mountains, New Hampshire." Miss Bourne, who succumbed to exposure, was just a few hundred feet from the summit house when she expired on that blustery September night in 1855. 5x7 glass negative. View full size.

Circa 1895. "West Shore R.R. depot, West Point, N.Y." 8x5 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

1864. "Federal cavalry guarding the Orange & Alexandria R.R. near Union Mills, Virginia." Wet plate glass negative by Mathew Brady -- National Archives. View full size.

The Monongahela River circa 1909. "Duquesne Steel Plant, Carnegie Steel Co., Duquesne, Pennsylvania." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.