Vintage pics: A look behind the camera

Frances Benjamin Johnston with group of children looking at her camera between 1890 and 1910.

Photographer Ben Shahn shoots an itinerant photographer in Columbus, Ohio in 1938.

Lewis Wickes Hine photographs John Howell, an Indianapolis newsboy, in August 1908. Hine's shadow is cast in the photo.

Two photographers taking each others' picture with hand-held cameras while perched on a roof sometime between 1909 and 1932.

Dorothea Lange, Resettlement Administration photographer, in California in February 1936.

Marion Post Wolcott with Rolleiflex and Speed Graphic in hand in Montgomery County, Md., January 1940.

Photographer Toni Frissell, sitting, holding camera on her lap, with several children standing around her, somewhere in Europe in 1945.

A girl taking a picture of the ceremony of laying a wreath on the tomb of an an unknown soldier at Arlington Cemetery in Arlington, Va. Photo taken by Esther Bubley in May 1943.

Photograph shows a photographer kneeling in front of cartoonist Clifford Berryman, who is seated in a chair sometime between between 1905 and 1940, taken by Harris & Ewing.

Photographers shooting cherry blossoms, Washington, on April 7, 1922.

Photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston seen in the shadow while photographing a home in Leesburg, Va. sometime between 1930 and 1939.

G. Eric Matson takes a photograph in Petra in 1934.

Photographer Timothy H. O'Sullivan seen at San Francisco Mt. from its base.

G.G.B. in Stutz sometime between 1910 and 1915.

Wilbur Wright on the ground after unsuccessful trial of Dec. 14, 1903, Kitty Hawk, N.C. Photograph shows the shadow cast by the photographer.

Portrait of Billie Holiday in New York ca. June 1946 taken by William P. Gottlieb, who is seen in the mirror's reflection.

Photographer Herbert A. French's reflection in seen in the Farm Utilities Corp display window around 1919.

"Jefferson" unveiling sometime between 1910 and 1915.

Photographer spotted in the shadow at that start of Jerusalem Water Works pipeline between 1934 and 1939.

Photographer seen in a shadow at the funeral of German Catholic soldier in 1916.

Cheap partly-constructed houses lacking water and sewage, Lockland, Ohio. Photographer Carl Mydans is seen in the shadow of the December 1935 photograph.

Frances Benjamin Johnston, three-quarter length portrait, holding and looking down at camera, between 1940 and 1952.

House in Lockland, Ohio photographed by Carl Mydans on December 1935.

Photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston photographs two unidentified women ca. 1890.

Photographer Timothy H. O'Sullivan is seen in the shadows in San Juan, Mexico, in October 1874.

Photograph shows Wilbur Wright, left, and a photographer with a tripod-mounted camera, on a tree-lined lane in Pau, France in 1909.

A detail of a photograph of Geronimo shows the photographer reflected in his eye in 1904.

Frances Benjamin Johnston on a balcony of the State, War and Navy Building with a tripod-mounted camera, photographing an unidentified man in 1888.

Photographer's wagon and tent between 1860 and 1865 in Cold Harbor, Va.

Photographer George N. Barnard takes a picture near the Strawberry Plains bridge in Knoxville, Tenn.

Photographer George N. Barnard takes a picture of photographic wagons and darkroom in Atlanta in 1864.

Matthew B. Brady's photo outfit in front of Petersburg, Va. in 1864.

Photographer Samuel Cooley on parapet of Fort Sumter photographing soldier in 1865. The photograph was taken by George N. Barnard.

Quarters of photographers attached to Engineer Corps in front of Petersburg, Va. in March 1865.

Deserted farm house near Dutch Gap canal in Dutch Gap, Va. in 1864.

Confederate fortifications in Atlanta in 1864. Shown is George N. Barnard, photographer and his dark room in Atlanta in 1864.

Ballard house on Franklin Street in Richmond, Va. A photographer's tent in foreground in April 1865.

Photographers resting in camp. Photo taken by Timothy H. O'Sullivan, between 1862 and 1869.

Wagons and the camera of Sam A. Cooley, U.S. photographer, Department of the South, in an unknown location between 1860 and 1865.

Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside with Mathew B. Brady, near the tree, at Army of the Potomac headquarters on June 11 or 12 of 1864.

Deserted farm house near Dutch Gap canal in Dutch Gap, Va. in November 1864.

Photographer at Butler's signal tower in Bermuda Hundred, Va. in 1864.

Parapet, Fort Sumter in 1865 taken by photographer George N. Barnard. Photographer Samuel Cooley sets up his camera in the distance.

Alice Kandell hiding behind a Sikkimese soldier to take a photograph of a Chinese soldier along the Nathu La pass, Sikkim in December 1965.

Photograph shows photographer Gertrude Kasebier, standing next to a tripod-mounted camera, an unidentified man is standing behind the camera. The photo was taken by Frances Benjamin Johnston in 1905.

Alexander Gardner's Photographic Gallery in Washington seen in 1863.

Timothy H. O'Sullivan photographs a photographer in Manassas, Va. in 1862.