UPDATE (2017): Thanks to the sleuthing of journalist Tori Cummins and historian Joe Manning, we now know the identity of the young woman in this photo: Ruby Nell Shepard (1916-1970). You can read her story on Joe's website.

November 1936. "Daughter of migrant Tennessee coal miner. Living in American River camp near Sacramento, California." Medium-format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1904. "Casino, the Breakers, and cottages along the beach." One of Henry Flagler's giant wood-frame hotels, the Breakers burned in 1903 and reopened the following year, then burned yet again in 1925. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

Waseca, Minnesota, circa 1899. "Chautauqua grounds -- cottages at Maplewood." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

San Francisco, 1921. "Maxwell Model 25 touring sedan." Honey, whose horse was that blocking the garage? 5x7 glass negative by Chris Helin. View full size.

1939. "Montebaro House, Salem & Greene Sts., Selma, Dallas County, Alabama. Structure dates to ca. 1827. Said to be oldest frame house in Selma. Birthplace of P. Hal Sims." Now revealed to be the residence of Mr. Peepers' better half. 8x10 inch acetate negative by Frances Benjamin Johnston. View full size.

August 1968. My mom in San Francisco's Chinatown at Grant and California Streets; Kodachrome slide by my dad. View full size.

Cincinnati circa 1915. "Western & Southern Life Insurance Co., Fourth and Broadway." 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. View full size.