Jacksonville, Florida, circa 1900. "Duval County Courthouse." The courthouse, at Market and Forsyth streets, burned along with the rest of downtown Jacksonville in the Great Fire of 1901. 8x10 glass negative by William Henry Jackson, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

Circa 1905. "Central Square -- Keene, New Hampshire." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative (cropped), Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

Jacksonville, Florida, circa 1900. "Bank and post office, Forsyth Street." The National Bank of Jacksonville at Forsyth and Laura, next to Castle Hall of the Knights of Pythias. 8x10 inch glass negative by William Henry Jackson, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

Circa 1896. Horton, Kansas. "Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railroad -- Locomotive CRIP 908." 4x5 inch glass negative by the Swiss-born optometrist/railfan Jules Bourquin. Louis A. Marre Rail Transportation Photograph Collection. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1901. "View of E Street N.W., north side, looking west from 12th Street." 5x7 inch glass negative, D.C. Street Survey Collection. View full size.

September 1937. Washington, D.C. "Capital Transit Locomotive 1135 on Pennsylvania Avenue at Post Office Department. Wheel arrangement: PCC." 4x5 glass negative by C.W. Witbeck from the Louis A. Marre Rail Transportation Photograph Collection. View full size.

February 1937. "Posey County, Indiana. Havoc wrought on farmland, highways, roads, farm buildings, equipment, homes by 1937 flood. Automobile after the flood on Mackey Ferry Road near Mount Vernon." Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

From around 1970, another young person from the Columbus, Georgia, news photo archive. A bangs-dimples-smile trifecta! 4x5 inch acetate negative. View full size.

From the files of the Columbus, Georgia, newspaper comes this unlabeled portrait, circa 1975. One of many such News Archive portraits showing young people (who may or may not be high school students) from the 1940s through the 1970s. 4x5 inch acetate negative. View full size.

September 1940. "Near Dameron, Saint Mary's County, Maryland. Negro Farm Security Administration clients and their homes. Youngest of 11 children of Edward Gant family, FSA borrowers." Photo by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

May 1940. Memphis, Tennessee. "Main Street at night during Cotton Carnival." Acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1901. "View of a neighborhood of houses (and lot for sale), probably in S.W." 8x10 inch glass negative from the D.C. Street Survey Collection. View full size.

Circa 1900. "Chicago & North-Western Railway locomotive CNW 605 on turntable." 4x5 glass negative from the Louis A. Marre Rail Transportation Photograph Collection. View full size.

Christmas 1949 in Valparaiso, Indiana. That's Grandma in a Kodachrome slide. View full size.

        Our Christmas coda is this cocktail-hour Kodachrome submitted by Shorpy charter member Delworthio 16 years ago, in 2008. Cheers!

On this Christmas Eve, we travel back 80 years for a visit with the First Lady of Shorpy, Iola Swinnerton. Some two decades after her bathing-pageant days, she is still radiating beauty and cheer. Scroll down to the comments for more of Iola's life story. View full size.

        CHICAGO (Dec. 23, 1944) -- Mrs. Iola Swinnerton Warren, who suffered the illness known as myositis ossificans after inoculation for typhoid following a Florida hurricane, watches her husband Theron V. Warren and little nephew Herbert Taylor trim Christmas tree. (Acme Newspictures photo)