September 30, 2013
Yesterday, A.J. and I were on a long drive toward home, and we broke it up by stopping in Tennessee to browse through a few antiques stores. In one huge store, with a lot of old car and garage memorabilia, we walked into a back room and found this …
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September 27, 2013
This 1920 Dodge “promo” film was clearly meant to show how much the car could, um, withstand. But can you even imagine?!?
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September 25, 2013
In my near-constant search for interesting old news, tidbits, and photos to share here on the blog, I hit the jackpot today. In just one of its many, many photo collections, the Library of Congress has more than 10,000 (yes, there are four zeros there) digitized news-agency photos covering the years 1910 to 1915.
Here, then, is our first look at an image from the LOC’s Bain Collection …
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The whip in this c. 1910 photo is Lord Leconfield, who is also mentioned in this brief article from the April 16, 1911, issue of The New York Times.
“Alfred G. Vanderbilt, who will open his English coaching season next month, is this year to have a rival on the London-to-Brighton road in the person of Lord Leconfield, who will run the original Old Times coach. Except that Mr. Vanderbilt will leave London via Kingston and Lord Leconfield via Wimbledon, both the Venture and the Old Times will follow the same road through Surrey and Sussex.”
September 24, 2013
This photo, c. 1903, of New York’s triangular Flatiron Building contains a plethora of pedestrians, streetcars, horse-drawn delivery wagons, and horse-drawn trucks, a few Hansom Cabs and other horse-drawn passenger vehicles, and even an early “horseless” carriage.
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September 16, 2013
Although the main focus of this photo is nautical, there are a few horses and wagons. This fascinating image shows payday for the dock workers in Baltimore, Maryland, c. 1905. I’ve been studying the photo to see if I can identify any of the buildings around the “edges” … I can’t help but wonder whether this is actually the Inner Harbor?
Needless to say, Baltimore’s harbors look rather different now!
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The Slower Road 