History Photos taken before WW2 - history in black and white

Room for one more Pierce? Here's a limo, complete with a baby.

 

Another baby...

 

Here's an RCH with a baby and an early woman driver.

 

Kids have wanted their parents' cars since cars were first invented...

 

My Great Grandparents' 1912 Kissel Kar. Photo most likely taken in Los Angeles:

 

Here are a few more kids. With an Overland, Maxwell, and Oldsmobile.

 

Way too young to drive...

 

Too young? Maybe just a helping hand....

 

Another reminder in this hot weather, don't be puttin' your babies up on the hood.

 

This means you!

 

Do you think he was driving?

 

Maxwell- definately.

 

Here's a baby not driving. After all, this is a Library of Congress photo. Emil Berliner in front of a 1913 Packard. Who?

From wiki: "In 1886 Berliner began experimenting with methods of sound recording. He was granted his first patent for what he called the "gramophone" in 1887. The first gramophones recorded sound using horizontal modulation on a cylinder coated with a low resistance material such as lamp black, subsequently fixed with varnish and then copied by photoengraving on a metal playback cylinder. This was similar to the method employed by Edison's machines."

You learned it here first, on the HAMB.

 

Here's a few kids on a Pope.....

 

Pierce tow truck!
Courtesy of the Oregon State Library

 

Here's a cool one, Stephens touring with child star of stage and screen
Miriam Battista posing on the running board. This pic was snapped in 1922
in Washington, D.C., when Miriam was about 10. Another historical photo
from Shorpy. Thanks, Shorpy! BTW, isn't this called a "cape" top?

 

Here are some stills from the movie:

 

Another from the Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs.

 

Employees and cars lined up in front of Rabe's Road Service at 101-103 Manhattan Street, Rochester, Ny. RMSC Photo

 

How about a new 1934 Chevrolet hauling goods for Symons Brothers? Symons was late-19th, early-20th Century Saginaw, Michigan's version of a Super Walmart: They carried dry goods, groceries, and "notions" (sewing goods).

In '34, they also employed my 22-year-old grandfather as a meat packer (that's not him).

-Dave

 

Neat truck. Here is one of YellerSpirit's nifty photos posted elsewhere on the HAMB (hope he doesn't mind). I don't know the exact location, but maybe he does. 1938 or 1939 VT plate on the car, and a racoon tail on the truck radiator cap.

 

Darned kids...

 

This Selden truck, a police motor patrol truck, was being shipped to Pensacola, Florida by a Rochester automobile agency. The Selden was manufactured in Rochester. RMSC Photo

 

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Yuba City Ca. 1911......

 

Kern County CA......

 

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Since I missed all the Pierce Arrow fun, here's Olga Baclanova with her new Pierce Arrow Roadster and I guess I'm in the minority cause I like the Pierce Headlights.