California, March 1937. "Toward Los Angeles." View full size. Medium format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration.

December 1940. "Secondhand plumbing store, Brockton, Mass." 35mm Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano. View full size. As of 2007, Saba Mechanical Plumbing & Heating is still in business in Brockton, at an address on Linus Avenue.

March 1912. "Row of tenements, 260 to 268 Elizabeth Street, New York, in which a great deal of finishing of clothes is carried on." 268 Elizabeth Street, in Little Italy, is now a "luxe sweater bar" called Sample; 258 (Kips Bay) is a handbag boutique called Token. Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size.

New York, May 1947. "Teddy Kaye, Vivien Garry (last seen here) and Arvin "Arv" Charles Garrison at Dixon's." Photo by Down Beat contributor William Gottlieb. View full size.

Atlantic City, New Jersey, circa 1912. "The Boardwalk and Steeplechase Pier." George Tilyou's "amusement pier" lasted the better part of a century, hurricanes and fires notwithstanding. 5x7 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

July 1, 1964. Here we are at the Midtowner Motel, in a Kodachrome slide donated by a fan of Shorpy. But where is the Midtowner Motel? Let us know in the comments below. View full size.

Niagara Falls, New York, circa 1899. "The Factories -- Niagara Gorge. (Roof of first plant by water: Power Station No. 2, Niagara Falls Hydraulic Power & Mfg. Co.; second plant: Cliff Paper Co.)" 8x10 inch glass transparency, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

        UPDATE: Several of our astute commenters have identified this as North Creek Station, Town of Johnsburg, Warren County, New York.

Circa 1911. "Commuters at train station, upstate New York." Where your charabanc awaits. 5x7 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1915. "Main entrance, Museum of Fine Arts." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Circa 1899. "General view -- Los Angeles, California." At right, Bunker Hill and Broadway. Panorama made from two 8x10 glass negatives and one 8x10 transparency. View full size.

New York circa 1910. "Polo Grounds and Harlem River Speedway." We hope that line has cleared up by now. 5x7 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

February 18, 1957. "Montego Bay. Chess -- Mrs. John Pringle & Cleveland Amory." Former model Liz Pringle matching wits with the future author of "The Cat Who Came for Christmas." Composite of two 35mm Kodachromes by Toni Frissell for the Sports Illustrated assignment "Sporting Look: Round Hill, Jamaica." View full size.

February 18, 1957. "Montego Bay" is all it says here. 35mm Kodachrome by Toni Frissell for the Sports Illustrated assignment "Sporting Look: Round Hill, Jamaica." View full size.

South Somerville, New Jersey, circa 1918. "Wreck on Lehigh Valley trackage." Glimpsed here in yesterday's post. 5x7 glass negative by John S. Powell. From the Bruce Fales Collection; acquired by the Louis A. Marre Rail Transportation Photograph Collection. View full size.

South Somerville, New Jersey, circa 1918. "Central Railroad of New Jersey -- Lehigh Valley depot and RM tower. Train wreck just past South Somerville depot. View is undated but thought to be circa 1918." 5x7 inch glass negative by John S. Powell. From the Bruce Fales Collection; acquired by the Louis A. Marre Rail Transportation Photograph Collection. View full size.

February 1957. "Ski school meeting place." An alternate view of yesterday's bunny-slopers, this is one of the 400-plus Kodachromes shot by Toni Frissell for the Sports Illustrated assignment "Skiing at Aspen, Colorado." Toni Frissell photo collection, Library of Congress. View full size.