History Photos taken before WW2 - history in black and white

Mac, I think they'd backed the twin six up to this more than once for a download. Noaker's was in Canton, Ohio and sold out to Borden's. Looks like another White.

I think they had too much of this also.......

 

Twin6......why not put the Packard Girls on a diet of this stuff.....

 

LOL- thought that was a funeral truck before I opened the pic!!!

 

One look at this, and they'll want T-Head's mush.

 

I'll post this again A 36 Willys coupe in Wells british Columbia

 

This is one of the most wonderful photos I have ever seen. It is a 1899 Amoskeag steam powered pumper made in Manchester, New Hampshire for the Hartford, Ct. Fire Dept. It still exists and is owned by a friend of mine. While the city still owned it they had converted to a gas engine running a generator which powered electric motors on the front wheels. I believe this was done in the teens.

Here it is running down the road under power and from the looks of the horses behind it this guy is really rolling.

 

The "Good Old Days" when the Fire Department delivered fire to your doorstep!

 

Now that's a steering wheel ^

 

Early "power assist" steering!

 

DuPont "camping auto" year not spec'd, from a site, motorhomesalesusa.

 

From a site called atomicaddiction, this one stretches credibility!

 

This came up on an AOL search at a site called sickplaylist. Interesting if out
of focus. But what does the lady appear to be doing?



From a site called goldmedal100. What's
the tow vehicle?



From a site entitled inlandsocal.

 

Here's the Dupont camp car, a Stoddard Dayton, in full battle dress. Library of Congress photo.

 

I hope there will not be any MONKEY business on here today.....

 

My Grandfathers new Dodge after he rolled it the day he bought it.

 

In 1933, you could order plans to build a travel trailer from Masonite. The name of the company it the HAMMER BLOW TOOL CO.

 

Amen to that, brother.

 

They let anybody drive back then...

 

I think we have a MONKEY on our back.......

 

Time to go for some barbecue. Thanks to raceron1120 and CustomCab for these great shots, which they posted elsewhere on the HAMB.

 

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Hopefully you'll never need one, but you can get one in Minneapolis.

 

Jacob M. Schwoob and a woman in front of a car with a display of Wyoming Number 1 license plates.

Twin6 can fill us in on what happened to these plates.......

 

Ladies enjoying time out in their rakish machines. Possibly a Regal on the left, unknown on right. Can anyone tell us?

 

Here is a women in an early roadster, maybe with her Easter bonnet on.

 

Ladies out for a spin in a Stutz Bearcat. The monkeys seem to have left (temporarily) but the dog is still a part of motoring. I think the photo is to blame for the odd look of the wheels.

 

Oscar Hedstrom, co-founder, Indian Motorcycles,
circa 1901, thanks to theselvegeyard.com.

 

Herbert McBride with his record-breaking 105-mph Indian, circa 1920. From Bettmann Archive

 

Depending on the date of the picture, that's only 40-50 years after the Civil War- and unfortunately, there was a great need for businesses like that.

 

Dig those keen shoes!!! Actually it's a pic of Dorthea Lange, possibly THE
most celebrated photographer of ordinary people during America's depression and
Dust Bowl era. This was in California, January 1936, and I found it at theselvegeyard.com. THANKS to them!