Iran today: Discovering Iran (photos). Stunning photos of Tehran and environs -- buildings, people, public art, nature, people napping in a traffic jam -- fresh.

Here are a few, but the set is more than these, and well worth a click:

When American men wore hats: At the interesting photo blog knuttz.net, a large collection of USA Vintage Pictures (1939-1943). America is quieter, emptier, dustier.

This photo shows the Brockton (Mass.) Enterprise displaying hand-lettered headlines and leads in its windows. (This is a detail of a larger photo.)

Update: Click this link, or the photo above, for a larger image that a click makes even larger -- large enough to read much of the news.

That storefront window is the forerunner of a news site's homepage. The "links" -- headlines without their stories -- are understood to go to the full paper. People come by frequently to see what's new.

The hawking newsboy of old movies could deliver news alerts on your mobile:

(The Firefox extension Image Zoom can magnify or reduce any image right in the Web page, on the fly. It's free, of course.)