[AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL -- ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS & AMENITIES POSTCARD ARCHIVE]. [DEXTER, Thomas].Biblio.com
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192960666Park Ridge NJ & Pearl River NY: Dexter Press ca. 1929-1939. 4to. 27 leaves unnumbered. 2-pocket mylar sleeves holding 55 silver gelatin photo postcard proofs many w/ collaged text and elements mounted on stiff board some w/ extensive notes indicating addresses photographers and/or suppliers on versos sized from 2.25 x 4 in. up to 4 x 6.5 in. w/ 1 pair of images showing the proof copy alongside the finished printed standard sized photo postcard sized 3.5 x 5.5 in. w/ photographer’s info & publisher on verso many w/ some colour-tinting as well as ink editorial overpainting and airbrushes of clouds or other elements to enhance the original photographs. Recent beige-coloured cloth 3-ring binder excellent group of images. This small archive of photo postcard proofs impressively evoke the period of the vast expansion and development of the American highway system following World War I. With the number of miles doubling from 1920-1930 and then again from 1930 to 1940 Americans gook to the road to migrate and vacation while others located their roadside attraction tourist traps filling stations restaurants & diners motor courts and more within easy view of passing motorists. These original photographs encompass iconic locations across the United States from the Camp Moultrie famed Steakhouse in Blytheville AR to “Fun in the Sun Home-Made Candies†in Palm Springs CA; or 101 Motel Auto Court featugin DeLuxe Hotel Apartments along Sepulveda Blvd. in El Segundo CA on Highway 101 to Anderson Acres on the shore of Lake Erie in Huron OH. Many of the images show the proliferation of petroleum filling stations restaurants and rest stops for weary travelers including the “Trailer City†in Hot Springs AR which sold Gulf Oil; “Shady Grove Cabins†selling Benzoline Gas and Coca-Cola on Route 6 near Farmington CT; or even Shield’s Service Station at Main & Grand in McAlester OK. Roadside attractions intended to entertain and draw in the highway expeditioners included the “World’s Smallest†violin made by Otto Ridlisbacher at “The Friendly Buckhorn†in Rice Lake WI; fine textiles weaving pottery baskets and wood novelties in the Roaring Fork Shop at Gatlinburg TN; the Waverly TN home of notorious badman Jesse James; the giant “Big Red Apple†in Cornelia GA; the “Possum Kingdom†furrier & zoo attraction at Lake Graford TX; or even the Indian Spring in Upper Sandusky OH where author Charles Dickens drank in 1843.Interiors and exteriors of cafeterias hotels fishing camps theatre’s creameries log cabins and even the service staff such as at the Capitol Restaurant in Williamsburg VA are depicted. Dexter 1899-1993 launched his Dexter Press in Park Ridge NJ in 1920 following World War I where he also founded several newspapers simultaneously but by 1938 had sold off the newspapers and would focus on postcards and colour souvenir postcards. Often referred to as “The Postcard King of America†Dexter Press grew rapidly secured the exclusive contract for the 1964 New York World’s Fair and others. Dexter Press, hardcover
191259779Horsham West Sussex & Haymarket London UK: H.W.C. James A. Sinclair & Co. Ltd. 1912. Two vols. Oblong 8vo. 8.5 x 5 in. 64; 69 leaves unnumbered. including 2 calligraphic titles 63 & 68 platinum print matte finish photographs w/ images sized from 2 x 3 in. up to 3.25 x 3.75 in. on 4.75 x 7 in. prints all expertly hinged at gutter margin a few w/ pencil annotations on versos occasional light toning from the platinum salt emulsions coating the papers. Uniformly bound in striking full green morocco bindings by Zaehnsdorf gilt ruling on covers gilt inner dentelles 5 raised bands on spines title lettering ownership & dating in gilt a.e.g. marbled endpapers very slight shelfwear incremental rubbing at corners still a NF set. An exceptional pair of automobile travel albums composed of platinum print photographs by Dr. E. Stevens apparently presented to fellow Royal Photographic Society member and platinum photograph enthusiast H.W. Child. The motor car was a grey 1912 35 CWT Delaunay-Belleville depicted in 15 of the images bore the GB License Plate of BP1945 registered in 1912 to Charles Stevens c/o Dr. Stevens of Sarcelles Horsham West Sussex July 4 1912. The Delaunay-Belleville in the Brass Era was one of the most expensive and prestigious touring cars for travelers and enthusiasts whose owners at the time included Evalyn Walsh McLean original owner of the Hope Diamond as well as Mann who traveled “Round the World†in 1912 in a similar model. The intrepid travelers clearly intended to photograph and put their new motor through its paces traveling about 3000 miles. The album opens with photos of the auto loaded at Portsmouth and by ferry to Le Havre and then driving down through Normandy Alencon Le Mans Tours Bordeaux and onto Biarritz. The tour extended across the Pyrenees into Spain visiting San Sebastian followed by drives to Pau Lourdes Toulouse Narbonne and then along the South of France into Italy. The drive was not without pitfalls as they suffered punctured tires with two different images showing repairs one with a crowd as well as the photo waiting for a massive rock slide of giant boulders fallen onto the roadway and being removed by wooden wheelbarrows. They continued their tour across the Alps into Switzerland with views of the travelers at a Swiss border station and then capturing scenic vistas and driving onto Salzburg & Linz. One of the images captures advertising and awning of a “Buchdruckerei†specializing in photographic books supplies and photo albums. At that point the motorists had reached the most Eastern point and drove along the Danube route crossing overland to the river Necker Heidelberg and finally into the Netherlands with visits of Amsterdam Haarlem often with picturesque images capturing the Dutch in their iconic wooden shoes windmills canals and even electric railways. One particular image documents the “Art Store†selling Volendam silver & brass and antiques. The final image shows the car being loaded back on the steamship to England from Rotterdam. The platinum photographs were processed by James A. Sinclair & Co. Ltd. at 34 Haymarket in London specializing in photographic prints & equipment and at the time the Platinum prints were Alfred Stieglitz’s process of choice celebrating the images for their aesthetic qualities and permanence. As the Platinum prints were printed direction on coated paper with platinum salts the image was absorbed directly into the paper creating a softer and less-detailed image which was quite durable. Dr. Stevens fl. 1910-1918 who during World War I served as surgeon with the Royal Army Medical Corps joined the Royal Photographic Society in 1915 and exhibited three of his photographs presumably from this excursion including “In the Paese†“Making Port Concarneu†and “Santa Maria della Pace Lago di Como.†Child b. 1859 was a very successful merchant who by 1897 was also an active member of the Royal Photographic Society Platinum print enthusiast and automobile traveler as well. He exhibited several times with the RPS often appearing in their exhibitions from 1898-1915 the last being “Citadel and Church Dinant†shot in 1914 and displayed as an Autochrome. See: Ordinary Members The Photographic Journal Vol. 41 January 1917 pp. 32 41; Exhibition Catalogue of 1898 43rd Annual Exhibition of the Royal Photographic Society 1898; 44th 1899; 45th 1900; 47th 1902; 60th 1915. H.W.C., James A. Sinclair & Co., Ltd., hardcover
1956151379Indianapolis: O'Dell and Shields Studios 1956. Two vintage photo albums documenting Dean Van Lines Indy car team before during and after the Indianapolis 500 in 1955 and 1956 with legendary driver Jimmy Bryan at the helm. Several photographs stamped on the verso by the O'Dell and Shields Studios of Indianapolis longtime contract photographers for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. <br /> <br /> Dean a California moving company magnate and noted championship car owner began his association with Bryan in 1954 when the driver would score his first significant win the AAA National Championship. The pair would win an astonishing 17 national championship races over the course of the next four years.<br /> <br /> The 1955 album contains 12 photographs capturing the moments before the 500 with several views of the team performing last-minute modifications to the Kuzma-Offenhauser better known as the Dean Van Lines #2 Special custom-built by Eddie Kuzma for the 1955 race. Also included in the album are several action shots of the race itself along with a single photograph of Bryan posing behind the wheel of Dean's #7 Champ car. <br /> <br /> The second album containing 20 photographs documents the Dean Van Lines team at the 500 the following year with Bryan again behind the wheel. A blown tire around lap 100 would spin the Special into the south infield effectively ending the team's shot at winning the race a moment evocatively captured in the album. Dean and Bryan would take the roadster pictured in both albums to the short-lived Race of Two Worlds in Italy in 1957 an event featuring Indy drivers racing against European Formula One drivers. <br /> <br /> Bryan would go on to win the 500 in 1958 for George Salih only a few years before Bryan's death at 34 in a crash on the Langhorne Speedway in 1960. <br /> <br /> A fascinating collection of photographs providing an unusually intimate look behind the scenes at two pivotal figures in US motorsport history. <br /> <br /> Albums 11.25 x 8.5 inches photographs 8 x 11 inches. Albums and contents generally Very Good plus. O'Dell and Shields Studios unknown
1938155078N.p.: N.p. 1938. Archive of 63 vintage vernacular and professional photographs along with a number of newspaper and program clippings all relating to midget auto racing in Southern California circa 1937-1938. All materials housed in a string-bound scrapbook with captions in manuscript ink adjacent to most photographs. <br /> <br /> Of particular note in the archive are five photographs of African American "outlaw" racer Rajo Jack the first driver to integrate into the all-white sport-nearly two decades before Jackie Robinson broke the "color barrier" in Major League baseball in 1947. <br /> <br /> Born Dewey Gatson in 1905 Jack would never have been able to compete on a national level in the American Automobile Association AAA due to his race so he instead competed in the American Racing Association ARA the largest racing body to allow him to compete-making him an "outlaw" racer in the eyes of the AAA and largely restricting him to West Coast racing. A continual target of discrimination Jack would frequently claim to be of Native American or Portuguese heritage in order to race although he was largely welcomed by his fellow drivers out of respect for his talent. These supporters would frequently band together to insist on Jack receiving equal service at segregated restaurants and motels. Jack won races up and down the West Coast in stock cars midgets big cars and motorcycles and in 2003 was inducted into the West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame and the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame in 2007.<br /> <br /> Archive also includes content relating to drivers Fred Frame and the Robson brothers as well as the Oakland Speedway and the Southern Ascot Speedway. Other noted drivers in the collection include Travis 'Spider' Webb Tex Petersen including one photograph signed by Petersen Einer 'Swede' Lindskog Harry Lester Morris 'Slim' Mathis Hal Robson and Harry Secrest.<br /> <br /> An impressive and extensive archive of photographs of the South California midget auto racing scene of the 1930s with a rare substantial grouping of photographs of Rajo Jack at the height of his career.<br /> <br /> Scrapbook measuring 12.25 x 13.5 inches. Very Good with most leaves brittle and separated from binding. Photographs generally 5 x 3.25 inches with one as small as 1.25 x 1.5 inches and several as large as 5 x 3.25 inches. Very Good plus to Near Fine. N.p. unknown
191153910n.p.: Kate Harris 1911. Oblong 4to. 12.75 x 10 in. 204 pp unpaginated. on gray paper stock w/ 416 original silver gelatin black & white photos tipped-in sized 2.75 x 3.5 up to 3.75 x 6 in. including as well over 100 panoramic photos sized mostly 2.8 x 7.5 in. all w/ extensive manuscript notes in neat printed hand following manuscript presentation preface preliminary and end leaves with chipping & fraying to fore-edges some creasing soiling minor tears affecting a few notes 9 photos removed at some point. Recent gray cloth gilt lettering to spine gray paper endpapers presented by Mrs. Harris to Joseph F. Pickett b. 1887 a professional New York driver and chauffeur who drove the group through Europe on Dec. 25 1911. This exceptional photo travelogue details the motoring adventures by Kate Harris her husband Arthur their friend Mrs. Wadsworth and chauffeur Joseph Pickett through Europe just three short years before the devastation of World War I. This album not only demonstrates the level of interest in the burgeoning automobile tourism fad of the Edwardian era but also offers an excellent snapshot of scenic areas throughout Europe. The Harris’s not only brought their luggage and chauffeur via ocean liner in July 1911 but also their 1910 Pierce-Arrow 48-SS Seven-Passenger Touring Sedan fitted with special luggage racks on the rear to haul the many trunks bags picnic & camping equipment as well as a special spare tire bracket on the side which held three spares at any one time often needed. Mrs. Harris appears to have been an enthusiastic amateur photographer and writes that when they drove through an Austro-Hungarian military road she had to lock up their Kodaks. Carefully documenting punctured tires pubs & hotels for lunches and stays and even the mileage covered the group begins their travels in England view the Roman Walls stop in Durham Cathedral Raby Castle onto York Cathedral stop over in Oakham and then down to Cambridge. They stop over in Lofts Hall travel the 51 miles to the London Ritz Hotel and the next day drive the 72.3 miles to Folkestone where the auto was loaded on the 5 PM Boat. They begin their drive in Boulogne with views of the docks the hotel and street scenes included sheep herders moving their flocks out of the way in Hucqueliers young girls hauling bundles of straw and then onto Sedan to visit Franco-Prussian battlefields including the Chateau of Bellevue where Napoleon III surrendered to William I during the Franco-Prussian War. They motor onto Luxembourg Trier view the Porta Nigra Roman gate drive along the Moselle River to the Rhine with stops in Mainz Wurzberg Rothenberg often taking photos of peasants harvesting in the fields children playing under the fountain or in the village streets and even giving locals the remains of their lunch which were gratefully accepted. The drive through the Austro-Hungarian Empire includes stopovers in Prague Iglau Moravia Jihlava including a wonderful image of a young couple with wall of contemporary exhibition and advertising posters plastered behind them; followed by a hair-raising drive up the Styrian Seeberg Pass pilgrims traveling down to Mariazell Leoben Eisnerz Mauterndorf and photos of Tyrolean hunters in local dress. They experience a number of punctured tires as they ascend the Tyrolean and Italian Alps include splendid panoramic photos of the Pasterze Glacier withing the Glockner Group in Carinthia the perilous switchback highway down to Cortina Italy numerous views of the treacherous roads tunnels and scenery along the roads and Alpine villages of the Dolomites including two excellent photos of hemp workers bundling the plants in Storo Italy. The tour continues to Lake Como then the Gondo Gorge and finally along the Simplon Road into La Brique in the southern French Alps and then St. Claude France. The last part of the album concludes with the troupe leaving Bolougne Sept. 14 1911 loading the automobile onto the steamship waiting for Sarah Bernhardt at Folkestone; and then a winding drive through Cornwall including the Dartmoor National Park forest The Lizard St. Michael’s Mount Penzance Lands End St. Ives Tintagel a traffic jam in Stratton viewing Glastonbury and finally panoramic views to roads leading to Chester. The couple and their chauffeur departed from Liverpool on Sept. 23 1911 sailing on the RMS Mauretania later arriving in New York. Kate Harris, hardcover
1952155462N.p.: N.p. 1952. Vintage string bound photograph album belonging to William Arthur Slaughter an ambulance driver in Southern California circa 1951 and 1952. Included with the album are a pay stub dated June 1948 and noting Slaughter's previous employment by Southern Pacific Company as a railway lineman two driver's identification cards dated 1951 and 1952 a promotional matchbook bearing the name and number of Schaefer Ambulance Service in California and approximately 24 newspaper clippings covering accidents in Los Angeles several showing photographs of Slaughter. Stamp of photographer Lew Nichols on the versos of nearly all of the photographs. <br /> <br /> The album contains 36 black-and-white photographs with six additional loose photographs also included with the collection. Manuscript ink annotations by Slaughter provide captions for many of the photographs identifying subjects and locations and noting details about the various incidents captured in the album. One particularly striking caption for a photograph of a woman being carried out on a stretcher reads: "Honeymoon Cottage / Her Husband Died during the night / she was found next morning unconsius / Suficated Gas Heater / in coma for 30 days then Died / Maried only Two weeks" sic. <br /> <br /> As the above caption implies the incidents captured in the album span from asphyxiation to heart attacks although the majority of photographs document automobile accidents-almost certainly one of the main causes of death in California in the 1950s. The album also includes several photographs of Slaughter and the other ambulance drivers "off duty" as well as one photograph of a new Cadillac apparently used as an ambulance. A grisly and fascinating collection of accident photography capturing the dark side of the golden age of the automobile in postwar America. <br /> <br /> Album 12 x 9 inches. Photographs range from 10 x 8 inches to 5 x 4 inches. Photographs Very Good plus album Very Good with front board detached from the binding. N.p. unknown
198532079Jarrold and Sons Ltd. New. 1985. Paperback. 0861453263 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - 160 pages. 1st English edition so stated. -- with a bonus offer-- . Jarrold and Sons Ltd. paperback
198132081Jarrold and Sons Ltd. As New. 1981. Paperback. 0130560022 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - 296 pages. -- with a bonus offer-- . Jarrold and Sons Ltd. paperback
1962103090Automobile Quarterly Inc. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1962. Hardcover. Hardcover. Full set of Automobile Quarterly from Volume 1 No. 1 Spring 1962 thru the Fourth Quarter 2009. 4 volumes per year. 196 IssuesVolume 44 No. 1 has damaged corner to spine. Rest of set is in varying degrees of condition from Very Good to FINE condition. Due to size and weight of set extra postage required. Please inquire as to actual shipping costs. ; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall . Automobile Quarterly, Inc. hardcover
1967154897Peru Indiana: N.p. 1967. Vintage stringbound vernacular photograph album documenting the vehicular obsessions of one Greg Wildrick of Peru Indiana who would ultimately kill four people in a motor vehicle accident and later die himself in the same manner while speeding. Approximately 150 black-and-white photographs and 50 color photographs with manuscript ink annotations captioning most of the images. <br /> <br /> Manuscript ink annotations on the front board provide the album's title: "#1 / Our new cars etc. / Family Too." Additional annotations on the inside rear board note: "The bullshit contained in this so called albumn sic belongs to Greg E. Wildrick / 4 Holiday Drive / Peru Indiana is where I live if you don't know me. Call 472-2550 / If you don't call me forget it!!! / Book Finished March 5 1967 at 4:45 A.M."<br /> <br /> The photographs in the album span roughly 1955 to 1966 compiled by Greg at the age of 19. In addition to many images of the family's muscle cars and trucks the album also contains quite a few shots of bicycles go-karts quarter midgets and speedboats often with family members posing happily nearby. Several images also capture vehicles in use.<br /> <br /> Patently obsessed with cars and speed from a young age Wildrick would go on to work as a used car salesman in nearby Kokomo Indiana throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Wildrick's fanaticism also evidently extended to his leisure hours as the Kokomo Tribune notes Wildrick's involvement in multiple speeding violations during the same period. <br /> <br /> One of the album's more striking photographs taken on December 19 1965 is a blurry color Polaroid of the speedometer of a 1966 Oldsmobile 442 going 110 miles per hour down US Highway 31. This same stretch of 31 would see Wildrick gravely injured and four others dead in a grisly two-car accident five years later in January of 1971. Sadly this would not be Wildrick's last serious accident as a similar collision on US Highway 35 would precipitate his own demise in 1986 at the age of 39.<br /> <br /> A fascinating and thorough album capturing a young man's coming-of-age in a car-centric family and more broadly allowing a personal glimpse into the golden age of the automobile in postwar America. <br /> <br /> 12.75 x 12.25 inches. Photographs ranging from Near Fine to Very Good plus with approximately 18 photographs lightly scuffed cracked toned and edgeworn. Album Very Good plus with light edgewear and scuffing on the boards. N.p. unknown
194554550Seattle & Tacoma WA: Leo Dobry; Del Fanning ca. 1945-1955. 4to. 29 leaves unnumbered. composed of mylar sleeves. With 122 original photos printed on glossy photo paper 5 Kodachrome colour photos sized from 2.5 x 3.5 in. up to 3.5 x 5 in. some w/ annotations in lower fore-edge of image or on verso a few dated some soiling to one image & edgewear to a few. Recent cloth 3-ring binder lettering stamped on front cover excellent exemplar. This sensational group of original photographs records open wheel midget car racing just after World War II in and around Seattle Tacoma & Puyallup WA Victoria BC Portland OR California and Nevada including photos of many of the midget racers and their drivers at the Portland Raceway Aurora Speedway in Seattle the San Mateo Fairgrounds Reno Fairgrounds and the historic Langford Speedway in Victoria British Columbia. The hunger for speed the presence of large numbers of skilled mechanics & machinists a booming midget car racing scene nurtured by Ballard’s Gasoline Alley nurtured incredibly popular midget car racing circuits on the West Coast during the 1940s and 1950s. These photos open with shots of Geer McRae Motors Mercury # 75 the AA Plating Works No. 2 Leo Dobry’s No. 64 Kurtis Kraft midget racer driven by Del Fanning a jalopy racer No. 26 sponsored by Nix Auto Wrecker owned by Edward Prestek and the center of Ballard’s old Gasoline Alley in Seattle Swede Lindskog’s No. 3 midget racer and more. There are many photos of races wrecked midget racers midget open wheel racers on trailers and many action shots of them hurtling down the tracks. A number of the photos depict iconic Seattle driver Del Fanning in front of and sitting in his midget race cars including the “Seattle Special†No. 7 for Dick’s Auto Repair on 3817 Gilman Ave. in Seattle as well as No. 63 owned by Leo Dobry which was a Kurtis Midget with Offenhauser Engine and ran a number of races in the Northwest set track records at Langford and also raced the San Jose 100. There are photos annotated for the Portland Auto Show in 1954 when No. 44 wins 1st place as well as a series of images showing a pristine Midget Racer under construction in a garage. Leo Dobry was a racing car owner out of Tacoma who was a moderately successful car owner on the AAA and ASPAR circuits in the 1940s and 1950s as well as operated a successful speed shop which built and ran Kurtis Kraft racers on the Indy circuit and the Pike’s Peak Hill Climb. See: Don Radbruch Dirt Track Auto Racing 1919-1941: A Pictorial History pp. 302-303 100-124; Golden Wheels Fraternity Auto Racing Pathfinders Del Fanning History; Racin’ Thru the Raindrops: A Virtual Motorsport Scrapbook Lanford Speedway Victoria BC 2017; Brian Pratt Big Car Racing at Lanford Speedway Canadian Racer 2018; A Look Bat at Nix Auto Wrecking & Ballard’s Gasoline Alley Vintage West Woodland August 29 2016. Leo Dobry; Del Fanning, hardcover
191252555New York: Privately Printed University Press 1912. Tall 8vo. xiii 1 333 1 pp. Numerous photo plates photo text illustrations maps. Red ribbed embossed pictorial cloth cover art illustration of Vanderbilt in his Mercedes which set the 1904 land speed record of 92.3 mph at Daytona Beach FL gilt lettering & gilt ruling t.e.g. minor rubbing bumping to corners head & foot of spine couple very small holes at upper front hinge in cloth slightly shaken still G copy w/ faint ownership and gift inscription of the book being given to Peter C. Taylor from Peter Breymeier in 1941. Breymeier 1911-1991 was the son of Fred Breymeier b. 1876 noted Montclair NJ banker and auto racing enthusiast who had received the book originally from Vanderbilt. First edition of the second of these privately printed logs documenting the travels through Europe by the famed automobile racing enthusiast -- founder of the Vanderbilt Cup the first major trophy in American auto racing and avid supporter of the America’s Cup yacht races. This motoring memoir begins with the Vanderbilt’s travels in his one of his famed 1907 35-45 HP Renaults which Willie K had talked the company into producing after their 1906 French Grand Prix race win with the 13-liter racing car driven by Ferenc Szisz. One of these won the Morris Park 24-Hour race in October 1907 and subsequently one was used by Vanderbilt to trek over Europe from Liverpool to London then onto Paris over to Germany through the Austrian Tyrols then into Switzerland over to Monte Carlo and returned to Lyons. These are followed by accounts of his travels through Spain in a 1909 55-HP Mercedes witnessing the bull fights in Madrid through the Spanish Countryside and down to Seville followed by a trip through Northern Europe which lasted until 1910. The final trip from southern France around the entire countries of Spain & Portugal in 1911 were driven in a 1911 60-HP Mercedes fitted with a tonneau body and Michelin tires and hood and extra trunk rack in the back. Willie K. Vanderbilt 1878-1944 was a Vanderbilt scion served in World War I on the USS Tarantula on patrol off New York and New Jersey and was a skilled automobile and yacht racer. About 200 copies were printed of these “Log of my Motor†for friends and fellow motoring enthusiasts during the Brass Era carefully documenting mileage road conditions places visited as well as the performance of the various cars. See: The Owls Head Transportation Museum 1907 35-45 HP Renault The Old Motor 2015; Messer-Kruse Speed Demons American History Gear July 31 2013; Art Evans History of Sports Cars -- Speed Records at Daytona Beach Sports Car Digest 2011. Privately Printed, [University Press], hardcover
1947List2905United States and Canada 1947. Eleven double-sided scrapbook pages measuring 7 x 11 inches containing forty-five 2 ½ x 3 ½ inch photographs six postcards four maps four guides and nine typed pages. Scrapbook pages fragile with significant marginal damage; scrapbook contents generally excellent. A scrapbook documenting an African-American family’s road trip during July and August of 1947 which took them from Dutchess County New York through Quebec and New Brunswick and then Maine and Cape Cod. The scrapbook contains photographs of the family and scenery on the trip starting at Norrie State Park in Dutchess County then Quebec Gaspé Moncton’s Magnetic Hill in New Brunswick down the coast of Maine and finally a friend’s house in Marstons Mills on Cape Cod. It also includes postcards from various locations; maps of New York Quebec Canada’s Maritimes and Eastern Quebec and New England; tourist guides to Quebec Gaspé Moncton and the Cape; several retyped articles from the Toronto Globe and Mail; and a list of hotels in the Gaspé.<br /> <br /> For an African-American family traveling during the Jim Crow era this trip would have taken significant planning. Canada was not exempt from anti-Black discrimination at both legal and social levels; the car had solved the problem of segregated inferior public transportation but not the problem of finding a restaurant or hotel along one’s route that would actually serve Black patrons or even a safe place to stop and use the restroom. Victor Hugo Green’s Negro Motorist Green Book—a guidebook for food lodging and services that were friendly to African-Americans—did not include Canada until its 1949 edition. The family likely used it for the US leg of their trip but would have had to rely on other tactics for the Canadian leg. unknown
195053076Oakland CA & Hollywood CA: Lee’s Speed Shop; Hot Rod Magazine; Louis Hochman 3303 Cahuenga Blvd. Photographer 1950-1955. Oblong 4to. 24 leaves w/ 24 silver gelatin photos sized 7 x 10 in. up to 8 x 10 in. 4 w/ photographer’s stamps on versos 6 w/ red grease pencil markings & a couple with whiteout preparing camera-ready copy a few w/ annotations on versos still VG photos preserved in archival mylar sleeves. Recent limp black cloth post-binder gilt lettering stamped on front cover an excellent exemplar. This historic photo album records the construction and racing of Lee Chapel’s “Tornado Special†in 1952 at the Bonneville Salt Flats. Lee’s Speed Shop was one of the original members of the Dry Lakes Racers Bonneville 200 MPH Club who held their first meeting in September 1953 at the Bonneville Nationals. The “Tornado Special†was a Class C Streamliner which driven by John “Sonny†Rogers achieved a two-way average speed of 224.144 mph at Bonneville in 1952 featuring an unsprung front end torsion bars at the rear with a novel trunnion arrangement for pivoting the engine fitted with a 295 cubic in. Mercury engine equipped with a Lee’s Speed Shop “Tornado†overhead valve conversion. The front end was built from a 36 Ford and had split radius rods mounted to a tubular frame and the rear end was a reworked 1932 Ford Model A. The Tornado Special crashed in 1953 and the body was left at Bonneville while many of the parts were salvaged. Chapel 1905-1966 opened his first speed shop while sharing space with a junkyard in 1928 at 3263 San Fernando Road in LA which he later moved to 4557 Alhambra Ave. from 1933 to 1937. In 1937 he closed the shop to tour the country racing open wheel midget cars until he reopened his Lee’s Speed Shop at 1143 East 14th St. in Oakland CA. He served during World War II as a TEC4 until discharge in 1945 whereupon he resumed his Speed Shop in Oakland. Lee’s Speed Shop was a pioneer in the southern California Hot Rod scene who along with George Wight blazed the used hot rod parts trail. See: Hot Rod of the Month Man Made Tornado Hot Rod Magazine Sept. 1953 pp. 34-38; Daniel Strohl Lost Speed Shops: Bell Chapel Orr Hemmings Daily Nov. 23 2009; David Lucsko Junkyards Gearheads and Rust: Salvaging the Automotive Past p. 37; Lee Chapel Origin of a Speed Shop In: Hot Rod Magazine June 1928 p. 13; Kinne & Warner Bonneville 200 MPH Club History -- Links in a Chain 2010. Lee’s Speed Shop; Hot Rod Magazine; Louis Hochman, 3303 Cahuenga Blvd. (Photographer), hardcover
1966155116N.p.: N.p. 1966. Archive of photographs newspaper clippings and various ephemera belonging to a Kenny Aumont Brown 1943-2016 of Burlington North Carolina largely relating to automobiles and automobile accidents 1963-1966.<br /> <br /> The archive assembled by Brown when in his early twenties documents his preoccupation with automobiles automobile accidents and racing at a time when Brown was first employed as a tow truck driver for Cobb Motor Company and later as part of a rescue unit as seen in one of the newspaper clippings. In his later years Brown would serve as an Alamance County Deputy Sheriff for 34 years. A copious and insightful vernacular documentation of the relationship of southern culture and automobiles in the early to mid 1960s.<br /> <br /> The archive contains 37 standard size black and white photographs one 8 x 10 inch black and white photograph four color photographs 25 newspaper clippings two newspaper issues and twelve various documents all housed in a photo album. The archive contains annotations throughout in white marker on the black leaves of the photo album and frequently in pen or pencil on the margins of articles and photographs.<br /> <br /> The photographs in the archive include shots of Cobb Motor Company vehicles and shop including a circa 1930s photograph of a 1930s Cobb vehicle laid in various crashed vehicles with annotations including location and fatalities wrecked NASCAR vehicles one page including the annotations of "Petty Plymouth's 1962" and "Car witch sic almost killed Lee Perry" three of local drag races and several of friends and family vehicles including Brown's own cherished 1949 Plymouth which he identifies as "My Own True Love KAB." Many of the photographs include developer dates stamped into the margin which range from 1958 1960 1962 and 1965.<br /> <br /> The newspaper clippings in the archive date from 1963 to 1966 with the majority about local automobile accidents but also feature articles on NASCAR accidents and fatalities Joe Weatherly illegal racing a transportation shop fire a murder suicide and an Alamance plane crash which killed three which is included in two clippings as well as a full issue of the Daily Times News.<br /> <br /> As well as the photographs and newspaper clippings the archive includes various personal effects which include Brown's driver's license two car registrations belonging to his mother Cathera Garner Brown a 1962 Dion and Sam Cook concert ticket and a letter from the North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles warning Brown his license is in danger of suspension from speeding violations with an adjacent "Nasty Letter" annotation. Also included are much older family artifacts including a 1914 postcard receipt from Burlington Coffin Company a 1917 postcard receipt from Piedmont Railway and Electric and a 1919 receipt from Souther Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company all belonging to a presumed grandfather W.L. Burke of Burlington.<br /> <br /> On the first leaf of the album is Brown's name dated "Dec. 1963" and his initials in bold Gothic calligraphy in white. On the verso of the first leaf is a Sunday May 19 1963 newspaper clipping of an accident featuring a strikingly disturbing photograph of a man hanging from a telephone pole upon which his body was thrown his car burning below him with the adjacent annotation "Will They Ever Learn." The photograph in the clipping is of note as it was the image appropriated by Andy Warhol for his 1963 painting "Green Car Crash Green Burning Car I" one of the most celebrated paintings of his early "Death and Disaster" series.<br /> <br /> Photo album with string binding 12.5 x 8.75 inches. Very Good plus. Photographs Newspaper clippings and ephemera Very Good overall with a few clippings laid in and ten of the photographs loose from the original tape mounting many with faint soil tape shadows and light creasing. N.p. unknown
196645733Profile Publications Windsor 1966-1967. 96 vols. 8vo. First Edition with coloured and monochrome illustrations and monochrome photographs; pictorial wrappers wire-stitched as issued a few covers lightly age-soiled else all very good clean copies. The run comprises Nos. 1 - 96. RUNS OF THIS CALIBRE ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE. Profile Publications, [Windsor], unknown
1930234241930. California photo Album documenting 1930's roadside commerce's Oil and logging industries and desert sightseeing across Southern California and Death Valley circa 1930s. Include logging photographs made when steam power still ran the woods before the gasoline tractor and chainsaw displaced the steam donkey engine and the logging railroad. The photographs were made just as the paved highway and the auto court were turning the California desert and mountains into a tourist destination reachable by family car. John Marshall High School in Los Angeles shown new and unweathered in the album opened its doors on January 26 1931 fixing the album's date to that year or shortly after.<br /> Photo Album of 116 silver gelatin photographs mostly snapshot format ranging approx 3 x 5 to 5 x 7 inches California Sierra Nevada and Death Valley circa 1931 to 1935. The logging images show a tracked crawler tractor fitted with a tall steel arch for skidding logs a steam donkey engine venting steam beside a yarding spar rigged with cables decked logs stacked on railcars marked with painted numbers a single rail line running through uncut timber and a man in suspenders and field hat standing beside a standing tree with a felling axe and undercut wedge driven into the trunk. The Southern California group includes wooden oil derricks stepped up a steep eroded canyon wall three women in cloche hats and drop-waist dresses standing arm in arm on a pile of oil-field casing pipe a touring sedan with passengers parked among the derricks a typed caption reading "No 4. Artist's Drive. Death Valley" above eroded badland hills the neon-topped "El Don Motel" sign advertising kitchenettes and refrigeration the "Beechwood Motor Apartments" and "Aut-O-Tel" auto court a palm-lined commercial street with a Citizens Bank and parked Model A automobiles the Collegiate Gothic John Marshall High School captioned in pencil the grounds of the Hotel del Coronado covered wagons drawn up in a mountain meadow a backyard scene of an older couple outside a board cabin and harbor views with a small fishing boat numbered "A 619." Photographs are mounted with black corner tabs on black album leaves several captioned in pencil or by typed slip.<br /> Southern California in the early 1930s was the most prolific oil-producing region in the world with derricks crowding canyons and city lots from Signal Hill to the Newhall fields and the album captures ordinary visitors treating an active oil field as a sightseeing stop. The same years saw the auto court and motel emerge along the new highways and the El Don and Aut-O-Tel signs document that roadside lodging industry in its first decade. The logging photographs record steam-era timber work the crawler tractor and steam donkey caught at the moment mechanized gasoline equipment was about to replace them. Overall in very good condition with some fading to individual prints. The album places steam-era timber work and first-decade California auto travel side by side recorded firsthand during the years of the development of roadside infrastructure. unknown
1940LIST0210New York 1940. Watercolors on paper affixed to later illustration board 14 x 26 inches each. Very Good. An attractive set of images from the Robert Moses era in an unknown hand. The images show proposed intersections including two that were never built. The images include "Proposed Parkway Passing over Entrance to Fort Totten" which shows an overpass on the Cross-Island Parkway in Northeast Queens dated October 1937; "Linden Boulevard Overpass at Southern Parkway" showing an unbuilt intersection at North Conduit Avenue and Dumont Avenue perhaps in the Ozone Park neighborhood undated; "Woodbine Street Passing over Long Island RR to Metropolitan Ave & 67th St." which shows a non-existent intersection near the Middle Village stop on the M line dated August 1940. <br /> <br /> Interesting relics from the Robert Moses era which shaped the infrastructure landscape of New York City. A very good group overall though the Woodbine Street illustrations shows marginal dampstaining and all three show evidence of label removals and wear. unknown
1972028847UK 1972. First Edition . Paper. Good. 48mo - over 3 - 4" tall. An Original Official NASA Apollo 11 Astronaut Picture with Auto Pen Signatures of Neil Armstrong Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. A good example of an auto pen signed NASA picture. C1972. Apollo 11 July 16-24 1969 was the American spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle on July 20 1969 at 20:17 UTC and Armstrong became the first person to step onto the Moon's surface six hours and 39 minutes later on July 21 at 02:56 UTC. Aldrin joined him 19 minutes later and they spent about two and a quarter hours together exploring the site they had named Tranquility Base upon landing. Armstrong and Aldrin collected 47.5 pounds 21.5 kg of lunar material to bring back to Earth as pilot Michael Collins flew the Command Module Columbia in lunar orbit and were on the Moon's surface for 21 hours 36 minutes before lifting off to rejoin Columbia. Size is 255mm x 205mm. Condition is good. Light finger/handling creasing. More images can be taken upon request. RefA1234 <br/> <br/> unknown
199246069Besancon & Le Mans: Editions d’Art J.P. Barthelemy 1992. Two vols. Folio. 366 2; 382 2 pp. Over 1500 photos plates colour illustrations black & white illustrations racing posters and more. Uniformly bound in black boards silver lettering w/ d.j.s. slight shelfwear NF/NF set preserved in open-backed slipcase. First edition of this lavishly illustrated reference and history of the famed Le Mans 24-hour race graphically describing the 70 years of races involving the racing teams of Jaguar Aston Martin Ferrari Ford Porsche and Panhard from the Jazz Age until the modern era. Every race car is pictured along with the engineering team the drivers the designers the type of motor along with action photographs of the action. The authors have included details about the different track configurations the reigns of assorted teams racing memorabilia and more. The index is definitive and the work offers an incredible view of this pinnacle of automobile racing technology. Editions d’Art, J.P. Barthelemy, hardcover
1941234311941. Labor Organizing Ford River Rouge plant press photographs documenting labor conflict picketing and union organization at the largest industrial complex in the United States from the early UAW recognition battles of 1941 through the major Ford walkouts of 1949 and 1967. The River Rouge plant in Dearborn employed tens of thousands of workers and was the center of Ford's anti-union resistance during the rise of the Congress of Industrial Organizations CIO. Ford Motor Company remained the last major Detroit automaker to recognize the United Auto Workers after General Motors and Chrysler signed contracts following the 1936-1937 sit-down strikes. Several scenes here connect directly to the April 1941 strike that finally forced Ford to negotiate with the UAW after years of union busting and company sanctioned violence against organizers. Later scenes document the 1949 strike involving roughly 65000 workers and the 1967 Rouge walkout documenting three decades of union activity in the American auto labor history.<br /> <br /> Photo archive of 9 black-and-white press photographs silver gelatin prints ranging from 7 x 9" to 8 x 11" Dearborn and Detroit Michigan 1941-1967. Photographs show UAW members at Rouge plant gates carrying placards reading "Ford Is On Strike" while reporters and cameramen surround circular picket formations outside the factory entrances. One scene records women from the Women's Auxiliary of UAW Local 600 marching in orderly formation with American flags during an April 1941 demonstration outside the Rouge complex. Another captures a state policeman advancing with baton raised as two men recoil during violence near a plant gate; the attached caption identifies one figure as an unidentified Black man striking a UAW picket captain. Additional scenes show workers waiting in line for pay envelopes during the strike men gathered outside plant entrances under heavy guard and a largely idle assembly floor where a lone foreman sits beside silent production lines after tens of thousands of workers walked out. Typed press captions affixed to versos on image margins including references to the May 1949 strike and September 1967 Rouge picketing.<br /> <br /> The Ford strikes were some of the most consequential labor battles in twentieth-century American industry. Ford's Service Department under Harry Bennett built an extensive anti-union apparatus that used labor spies intimidation and physical violence against organizers culminating in nationally publicized confrontations such as the 1937 "Battle of the Overpass." The April 1941 strike represented the decisive collapse of Ford's resistance to industrial unionism and secured UAW recognition at the Rouge plant fundamentally changing labor relations in the American automobile industry. These scenes preserve not only the mechanics of organized strike action but also the scale of industrial labor mobilization in midcentury Detroit where mass demonstrations were central in the struggle between organized labor and corporate management. Light creasing scattered surface wear and minor handling marks consistent with newsroom use; captions and editorial markings largely intact and legible. Overall good to very good condition. unknown
1938234231938. Labor Organizing United Auto Workers and CIO labor photograph archive documenting strike action union leadership and collective bargaining negotiations during the expansion of organized labor in the American automobile industry 1938-1949. The archive traces the period immediately following the 1935 Wagner Act when unions gained federal legal protection for collective bargaining but still faced violent resistance from corporations police departments and municipal governments. Several scenes connect directly to the years surrounding the 1937 Battle of the Overpass in Dearborn when Ford security men beat UAW organizers attempting to distribute union literature outside the River Rouge complex and to the broader wave of sit-down strikes and factory shutdowns that forced General Motors Chrysler and eventually Ford into formal negotiations with the UAW. The captions identify senior labor figures including Walter Reuther R. J. Thomas George Addes and Richard T. Leonard establishing the archive as documentation not merely of rank-and-file unrest but of the institutional consolidation of the UAW-CIO into one of the most powerful industrial unions in the United States. The material also records how labor disputes extended beyond factory gates into courts city halls state legislatures and police jurisdictions revealing the political dimensions of industrial unionism during the New Deal and early Cold War years.<br /> <br /> Photo archive of 12 Large silver gelatin press photographs one large panorama measuring 9.5 x 16.5 inches 11 press photos ranging from 6 x 8 inches to 8 x 10 inches primarily Detroit Dearborn South Gate and Atlantic City circa 1938-1949. A large-format scene dated 1939 records tear gas and street violence during a UAW strike at the Fisher Body plant with clouds of gas spreading across trolley tracks as helmeted police advance toward crowds of fleeing workers and spectators. Another image shows hundreds of demonstrators carrying a massive American flag through downtown Detroit toward City Hall during protests following clashes between union pickets and police at Federal Screw Works; the verso caption notes approximately forty injuries and references accusations of "police brutality" raised before city council. Additional photographs show UAW-CIO officials seated at conference tables negotiating contracts and appearing in municipal hearing rooms beneath desk microphones and courthouse lighting. Captions identify figures including Walter Reuther George Addes and R. J. Thomas while a 1940 Dearborn caption records the arrest of union leaders for distributing handbills asserting workers' rights under the National Labor Relations Act. South Gate strike scenes outside a General Motors facility show workers carrying placards demanding a thirty percent wage increase while Rev. Louis R. Loe conducts prayer services along the picket line. Convention and leadership photographs from Atlantic City and Washington document labor leaders gathered under the authority of Samuel Gompers and later CIO leadership structures linking local strike activity to national labor organization.<br /> <br /> The archive illustrates the transformation of the automobile industry from one of the nation's most violently anti-union industrial sectors into the center of postwar collective bargaining power. Ford Motor Company resisted union recognition longer than General Motors or Chrysler relying on private security forces local police cooperation labor espionage and anti-handbill ordinances to suppress organizing inside and outside its plants. Several captions directly reference these legal confrontations including arrests tied to leaflet distribution and disputes over municipal authority to restrict labor organizing in public space. By the late 1940s many of the same figures shown here were negotiating contracts that established wage standards pensions grievance procedures and health benefits that reshaped industrial employment across the United States. Creasing edge wear scattered minor losses adhesive residue and newsroom markings to versos; images remain clear and intact overall. Overall good condition. unknown
193421223981934. Colophon: Lahore: printed at the ""Civil and military Gazette"" by G. E. Tilt for the association. 1934. 8vo. Original cloth lettered in gilt and black; pp. xvi title-page and illustrated advertisements 2 sectional title on stiff yellow papers 303 ix 3 additional sectional titles and leaves of illustrated advertisement interspersed numerous folding maps to throw clear; binding with wear to extremities and restorations to spine internally very clean provenance: printed On his Majesty's Service label and name J. B. Enyon in ink on verso of front fly-leaf pencil notes on final blank.Very rare sole edition of this all-encompassing motoring guidebook for Northern India with information on distances road quality garages hotels other infrastructure and hints for sight-seeing. The fist section of the volume describes the automobile association which was founded in 1927 its organizational structure statutes eminent members rules and regulations. This is followed by a list of towns their elevation and population together with guest houses and hotels and their prices garages descriptions of hill roads all with town plans. Somewhat tautological the next section lists more hotels dak bungalows government-run guest houses petrol stations and garages registered by the Association and hospitals. This is followed by a historical section and practical hints for morists including the relevant laws.LibraryHub locates a single copy in the British Library ascribing the authorship to one H. J. Martin; no copy in WorldCat. hardcover
195262418Denver CO: Ronald C. Hill Photographer ca. 1952-1961. 4to. 41 leaves unnumbered. w/ mylar sleeves holding 98 original photographs sized from 2.5 x 3.5 in. up to 5 x 7 in. 80% are larger size including 21 in Kodak Kodacolor prints remainder on glossy & matte finish black & white silver gelatin and about 80% including specific identifying manuscript notes in ink or pencil on versos including drivers race locations dates as well as frequently the camera lenses exposure and print paper used occasional over-exposure in the earliest Kodacolor Prints otherwise nearly all are quite sharp occasional rubbing thumbing still NF archive of photographs preserved in recent black cloth 3-ring binder. This well-documented archive of photos captures the thriving and fast-growing sports car racing scene in Colorado following World War II by very young Ronald Hill. The photographs here open in 1952 with photos of Dabney Collins with George Joseph’s 1952 Ferrari 340 American Spyder fitted with a Lampredi V12 at the Buckley Naval Air Station races in Aurora CO. A nicely annotated group of photos captures the racing cars of Charlie Hughes Bob Carnes and other drivers in the first Lookout Mountain Hill Climb in 1953 held up the 4.5 mile Lariat Trail from Golden CO to the top of Lookout Mountain. Young Hill notes that “Charlie really did a beautiful job of driving here -- up to his usual style. Seems unlikely that Carnes actually beat him.†Other photos capture the 1953 Buckley Naval Air Station field races where Hill remarks on the back of one photo about “John Mathewson corners vintage Maserati GP car . . . finished 3rd over-all after long duel with Allan Phipps due to carb trouble.†Many of the colour photographs capture in Kodacolor the 1959 Porsche Club Hillclimb races shot by Hill with a Leica IIIg camera and featured drivers such as Mike Collins Lucille Key just before crash and Jim Eckhorn in a modified VW Bug. Also shot by Hill were the Sept. 1959 CAMS sponsored by the SCCA Sports Car Club of America including Ray Mayer in Bill’s Corvette and Bill Kalmer in an Ace-Bristol. Several capture the racers and races at the Continental Divide Raceways in Castle Rock 30 miles south of Denver including Chuck Frederick in his Chevy-Allard J2X and Hall John Read and Hap Sharp at the CDR Driver’s School. Of special interest are a couple photos of the Bocar racing sports car in 1960 which was series of limited production 2-seater cars developed by Bob Carnes in Lakewood CO featuring beefed-up VW rear suspension and Corvette 283 V8 engine with a few sold on Triumph frames. Also included here are scarce early images of the Elva Courier Mk. II at the CDR and were only raced in the U.S. in 1960 and 1961 before forced into liquidation and same year Carroll Shelby won the USAC Road Racing Championship at CDR in his Scarab-Chevrolet later won by Ken Miles in a Porsche 718 RSK. Hill 1937-2023 was born in Illinois moved to Denver with his parents when his father became a professor at Denver University and Ron graduated from Denver U in 1959 attended Denver U Law School and served in the US Army 1962-1964 rising to Captain. He was a noted and accomplished railroad photographer favoring Leica and Hasselblad cameras who although best remembered for his Colorado Railroad photos shot automobiles automobile racing airplanes and landscapes from the 1950’s through the 2020’s eventually writing 12 books over 30 years on railroads. See: Scott Lothes Center for Railroad Photography & Art Feb. 2023. Ronald C. Hill, Photographer, hardcover
1921List3510California 1921. Photo album measuring 10 x 12 inches containing approximately 360 photographs. Photos are approximately 3 ½ x 4 ½ and smaller with very good to excellent contrast. Album with wear to covers and edges of pages; photos generally excellent to Near Fine. A photo album belonging to an unknown Southern California family; license plates date the album to about 1914 to 1921. Most of the photographs are of family life including farm work: piles of hay; cows pigs chickens turkeys and horse-drawn plows; gigantic watermelons; and family members posing outside vineyards and in cornfields. The family also documented their car and their recreational activities including swimming hiking and fishing picnics and carriage rides. It appears that they were quite proud of their car and were frequent “auto-campers.†They seem to have taken a trip to Mexico or the Southwest as some shots show wide desert landscapes Joshua trees and low Spanish colonial-era buildings.<br /> <br /> Identifiable subjects include the ferry boat Ramona; the Rose Parade in Pasadena showing Culver City Pasadena and Glendale floats; San Gorgonio Mountain Half Dome and the Wawona Tree a giant sequoia in Yosemite; and the Fairview Farm Club parade—a line of cars driving down a dirt road the first decorated with cornstalks—which is probably related to the ranching development located between Huntington Beach and Newport Beach.<br /> <br /> Someone in the family had an interest in hydroelectric power as many shots show ongoing or completed hydroelectric works projects in Southern California. Several show the Southern California Edison Big Creek plant. Located in the Sierra Nevada the Pacific Light & Power Corporation began the Big Creek project in 1910 to provide power to the growing metropolis of Los Angeles. The photographs in this album appear to include both exterior and interior shots. Another set of shots show a dam under construction; this may be Devil’s Gate Dam on the Arroyo Seco which was constructed in 1920.<br /> <br /> Of interest to historians of Southern California in the early twentieth century and some of its public works projects. unknown
