<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> While the Wright Brothers experimented at Kitty Hawk, a photographer named William Jennings believed he and his friends were making aviation history</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> Artfully composed still-life photographs from a rare 1871 album transform brushes, sponges, and stationery supplies into symbols of a proud, industrial society</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck">The Wyoming photographer Joseph Stimson proudly portrayed his region in the years when it was emerging from it rude frontier beginnings.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> A set of turn-of-the-century glass-plate negatives bought at an auction prompted a New York photographer to set off for central Ohio to document architectural and social change</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"> During the Depression, itinerant photographers hawked their services from town to town. All we know about this one is that he passed through Corpus Christi, Texas, in 1934. And that he was very good indeed.</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"> Charles Sheeler found his subject in the architecture of industry. To him, America’s factories were the cathedrals of the modern age.</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck">A man who has spent his life helping transform old photos from agreeable curiosities into a vital historical tool explains their magical power to bring the past into the present.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">A routine chore for JFK’s official photographer became the most important assignment of his career. Much of his moving pictorial record appears here for the first time.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Starting with a single, haunting battlefield image, an amateur photo detective managed to reconstruct a forgotten photographer’s life and uncover a treasure of Indian portraits.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Their unwilling subjects considered the tabloid photographers pushy and boorish. But they felt they were upholding a grand democratic tradition.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">A historian of American portraits tells how he determines whether a picture is authentic and why that authenticity matters.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">A HALF-CENTRY AGO, Harry Dubin bought his son a camera, and, together, they made a remarkable series of photographs of a city full of blue-collar workers.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"><lead_in> A LIFETIME AGO, A QUIET STRANGER</lead_in> passed through the author’s hometown and came away with a record of both personal and national importance.</span></p>
<p>On a 1947 trip up north with his son, Ansel Adams took a remarkable photograph that brought Alaska's grandeur to the American public on a large scale for the first time.</p>
