New Hampshire

March 1940. “Skiers from Boston relaxing in lodge at North Conway, New Hampshire.” Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott.

Coney Island

Boston

Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1906. “Newspaper Row, Washington Street.”

Flatiron Building

New York circa 1905. “Flatiron Building, Broadway and Fifth Avenue.”

Lincoln Colored

Abraham Lincoln by Alexander Gardner

February 5, 1865. “Abraham Lincoln, seated, holding spectacles and a pencil.” Glass transparency; photograph by Alexander Gardner.

Esther Bubley

April 1943. Washington, D.C. “Girl sitting alone in the Sea Grill waiting for a pickup. ‘I come in here pretty often, sometimes alone, mostly with another girl, we drink beer, and talk, and of course we keep our eyes open — you’d be surprised at how often nice lonesome soldiers ask Sue, the waitress, to introduce them to us.’ ” Medium-format nitrate negative by Esther Bubley for the OWI.

October 1943. Washington, D.C. “Sweaters and long ropes of beads are popular with the girls at Woodrow Wilson High School.”  Photograph by Esther Bubley for the Office of War Information.

15-cent photo booth in the lobby at the United Nations service center at Washington, D.C. December 1943.  Photograph by Esther Bubley.

Katy Lemay

Marcel Duchamp