From sometime around 1968 comes this News Archive snapshot of a cozy kitchen dinner. Raise your hand if you see family here. 4x5 inch acetate negative. View full size.

From around 1957 comes this News Archive photo of a switching locomotive getting extricated from a slight mishap just outside the Associated Metals Richmond Branch, which would put it in the Bay Area north of Oakland. Okay, kids, who left that penny on the track?? View full size.

St. Paul, Minnesota, circa 1905. "Wabasha Street." One dog and one boy, ready for adventures! 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

December 1941. "Threshing machine. Canyon County, Idaho. Black Canyon reclamation project in a dry land area, administered by U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Reclamation." Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

February 1940. "Secondhand store. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

September 1941. "In the living room of farm family, members of Boundary Farms FSA project. Boundary County, Idaho." Photo by Russell Lee, Farm Security Administration. View full size.

        In a tragic twist of fate, Senator Schall -- whose blindness was the result of being shocked by an electric cigar lighter in 1907 -- died seven years after this picture was made, struck by a car while crossing the Baltimore-Washington Parkway.

January 1928. "CANINE CHAPERONE. Senator Thomas D. Schall, blind solon from Minnesota, is now able to get around the Capitol without an attendant since his specially trained German police dog has arrived to lead him around. The dog, 2 years old, has been specially trained for the purpose." 4x5 inch glass negative, Harris & Ewing Collection. View full size.

February 1942. Chafee, Missouri. "Father and children waiting to see the doctor. The little girl was bitten by a dog and is to receive anti-hydrophobia injections." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.

January 1939. "Migrant packinghouse workers. Belle Glade, Florida." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

January 1939. "Migratory packinghouse worker's child playing 'school' near Canal Point, Florida." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.

September 1941. "Hotel in Big Piney, Wyoming." Last glimpsed here. Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

September 1941. "Cattle country and rural scenes. Hotel in Big Piney, Wyoming." Acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

Grosse Pointe, Michigan, circa 1910. "F.M. Alger residence." The home of banker-industrialist Frederick Moulton Alger. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

March 1941. "Sailor's wife living in trailer camp for construction workers near Navy yard. Portsmouth, Virginia." The lady last seen here. Photo by John Vachon. View full size.

April 1940. "Resident of riverfront shacktown. Dubuque, Iowa." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.