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History Photos taken before WW2 - history in black and white

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  1. MrFire
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    Band on Pikes Peak


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    Pikes Peak water stop

    http://www.stanleysteamers.com/vintage-photos.htm

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    "Thomas Edison and two White steamers in _Harper's Weekly_ I:2581, p.809
    (June 9, 1906). Edison is standing between the two cars; the man at the
    wheel of the White on the left (bearing both Penn. and NJ plates) is
    Edison's son, Charles - the car on the right holds Edison's two laboratory
    assistants. The location was the chain bridge leaving Washington, DC, for
    Leesburg, Va. The description with the photo is as follows:

    "Thomas A. Edison has gone to Charlotte, North Carolina, to investigate
    some reputed properties of cobalt, the mineral which, it is said, is
    essential to the perfecting of the new storage battery which Mr. Edison has
    been working upon for so long, and which, it is expected, will revolutionize
    the commercial use of electricity. Mr. Edison travelled from his home in
    Orange, New Jersey, to North Carolina by automobile. His party, consisting
    of his son Charles and two of his laboratory assistants, made the journey in
    two steam automobiles, one of which was supplied with a fully equipped
    laboratory in charge of expert chemists." "


    Thanks to Jim Merrick - Archivist/Stanley Museum

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    technically an epic fail, sure - but i didn't see it that way. with the other one in that batch of an almost trackless coastline (which for a moment i thought might have been here where i am, looking south) - i'm sure it don't look like that anymore where-ever it is, so it's a priceless record really ... imho.
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    I like the photo. There's a story to tell with it, even though that story may not be precisely spelled out as in other photos.

    dan


     
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    Pic taken in spring of 1843 while the war was going, so not quite as old as pre-WWII, but in the mid stages. It's a pic of my Grandpa and my Dad. Rod
     
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    Well, sure... ifn you squint a little. Many moons ago in photo school, the professors would tell you about this "rule" or that. Then we'd go out an intentionally break the rule, or at least jack it around a little You know, being creative. So if the rule was " don't have a light pole sticking out of the subjects head" we'd go out and take pix of 50 people with light poles stickout out of their heads. The resulting group of photos were fucking histerical to see. This one has that feeling... as if someone said "don't cut off the subject, keep the main point of interest well represented, avoid confusing the viewer, etc." Then someone went out and deliberately did it all wrong. I'm still chuckling... Gary
     
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    This is actually not a Stude.....it's a 1912 Cadillac "30" Torpedo Touring :D
     
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    The plank road remains found beneath Hwy 26 are from the old highway that ran all the way through Portland to the coast. My Grandfather (Born 1901) remembered the old plank incarnation of Canyon Road through Portland's West Hills. He said it was a single lane road that was notoriously dangerous at night due to thieves and highwaymen that robbed travelers and motorists after dark from the cover of the trees on either side of the canyon. It was also very hard on the early tires. A friends grandparents took a vacation to the coast (Seaside, OR) in 1915 in their 1913 Hupmobile Model 32. The trip took them a week (2 days there, 1 day at the coast and 2 days back) and they went through 5 new tires. The same trip today is a day trip and the drive takes about 1 hour each way...average speed 60 mph.

    How times change :D
     
  16. The lower photo has appeared elsewhere - maybe earlier in this thread??. From memory it was taken in Los Angeles about 1904. The closest car is a 1903-4 Winton and behind it are a Duryea and a White steamer.
    The three wheeler in the fourth photo from top is a Motorette, built in Hartford, Connecticut, from 1911 to 1914, though the styling would suggest a date ten years earlier.
     
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    MrModelT, I don't think you got the joke, buddy. This pic followed right behind a Stude dealership with not a customer in sight. LOL

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    And HERE is a jolly crowd! (Suppose they all bought Studebaker stock?) :p

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    This is actually not a Stude.....it's a 1912 Cadillac "30" Torpedo Touring :D
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    MANY THANKS, 33Chevy & MrModelT both! :) It's the back stories on these old photos that really bring them -- and the history they depict -- to life! :D I don't think a lot of people nowadays have any idea of how rough a lot of things, not only roads, were still yet in the early decades of the 20th Century. :eek: -- Jimi


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    [That is a plank road, probably in Oregon or Washington. The reason for them was they were cheaper than gravel. There was once an extensive lumber industry in the Northwest. The roads made of small diameter logs were called "cordoroy" roads. They found plank road under U.S. 26 in Sandy, Oregon last summer while doing road repairs. QUOTE=jimi'shemi291;6461119][​IMG]

    </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>The plank road remains found beneath Hwy 26 are from the old highway that ran all the way through Portland to the coast. My Grandfather (Born 1901) remembered the old plank incarnation of Canyon Road through Portland's West Hills. He said it was a single lane road that was notoriously dangerous at night due to thieves and highwaymen that robbed travelers and motorists after dark from the cover of the trees on either side of the canyon. It was also very hard on the early tires. A friends grandparents took a vacation to the coast (Seaside, OR) in 1915 in their 1913 Hupmobile Model 32. The trip took them a week (2 days there, 1 day at the coast and 2 days back) and they went through 5 new tires. The same trip today is a day trip and the drive takes about 1 hour each way...average speed 60 mph.

    How times change :D
     
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    I got it alright......I just couldn't help myself :eek:

    ..I see an old, unidentified car, I have to I.D. it...what can I say :rolleyes:
     
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    "Okay Gentlemen! ...No smiles and pretend your at a funeral....aaand hold it!"

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    Gotcha, buddy! LOL. And you're one of the BEST I have certainly seen! So, here's a toughie! :rolleyes:

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    Not many taxis got saved from the early years. WHAT make is this
    one? :eek: Washington, D.C., parked on the back side of the White
    House. Pic THANKS to our Library of Congress. :)
     
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    Circa 1914, this lady seems to be having a jaunty time tooling in the Washington, D.C., vicinity. :D
    What's her car? :confused: Fenders look familiar.
     
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    Early Dodge Bros. 1914 - 1919 :D
     
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    It's a 1912 to 1914 Ford, isn't it?

    -Dave
     
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    That be a "Tin Lizzie".... a Model T ford circa 1913-1914
     
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    T.P. O'Grady raced an MMC-engined machine with some success at the Adelaide Oval in October 1902.

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    This machine was snapped in the Lewis Cycle and Motor Works in McHenry St c1904, and uses a Kelecom motor and BSA frame fittings. From the transfer on the steering head it would appear to be a Lewis, but it could have been built or imported by James Hill and Sons, c 1903.

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    T.P. O'Grady at The Opening Run of the Automobile Club in October 1903. His MMC-powered machine is either an updated version of the machine from the previous year (now fitted with reinforced front fork and new tanks), or a new machine along the same lines. The Lewis behind is a 1903 pattern full side valve clip-on Minerva.

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    Several machines were built from 1913 using the 3 1/2 h.p. Precision OHV motor, in both stripped and road-going trim. The pilot here is believed to be Edgar Ferguson. In addtion to the air cooled versions, at least one machine was fitted with the water-cooled Green Precision motor.

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    By 1919 Lewis were still offering "the famous Lewis JAP", by now fitted with a Druid fork. This 6 h.p. machine is fitted with an American Dixie magneto. An 8 h.p. JAP twin was also available.

    http://users.senet.com.au/~mitchell/lewis/motorcycles/html/models.htm
     
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