San Francisco circa 1924. "Hudson Super Six touring car at Spreckels Mansion." Plucked from the Shorpy Pantheon of Pharaonic Phaetons. Our title comes from the slogan on the car's gigantic Miller Cord tires. 5x7 glass negative by Christopher Helin. View full size.

Circa 1908. "Main Street, Mackinac Island, Michigan." No motor traffic allowed, but postcards and dentists galore. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

New York circa 1905. "Newspaper Row -- City Hall Park." Headliners include the Tribune, Times and domed New York World (Pulitzer) buildings. 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size.

New York circa 1906. "42nd Street at Park Avenue, looking west." With Grand Central Station at right and the Hotel Manhattan center stage. 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size.

Previously in Calpella, my brother was being artistic, while back home I was waiting to be born a few days later. Three years have gone by and now he's back at our grandparents' home, minus one appendix and plus one little brother. Needless to say, we're not the musical Hudsons, nor are we related to Henry, but we did come hither via the family car back there, a 1948 Hudson Super Six. This was the same day I didn't fall in the well. Photo by my sister, scanned from the original "120" negative. View full size.

March 1940. "New England housewife fixing supper on a winter night. Woodstock, Vermont." Photo by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

        Meanwhile, back in the White Mountains, "Birthplace of American Skiing" --

March 1940. "Skiers from Boston relaxing in lodge at North Conway, New Hampshire." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.

July 1941. "Children outside tent home at the FSA migratory farm labor camp mobile unit. Athena, Oregon." Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

December 1940. "Auburn, California -- Placer County Courthouse." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

"Second International Pageant of Pulchritude and Eighth Annual Bathing Girl Revue -- Galveston, Texas -- May 21-22-23, 1927." Panorama by Joseph M. Maurer. View full size.

May 1941. San Diego. "Family living at Kearney Mesa defense housing project. This man came out to California from Oklahoma 10 years ago. He has been an agricultural worker and had lived in various FSA camps. Now employed as a painter at Consolidated Aircraft." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

March 1940. "Post office and general store in Sandwich, New Hampshire." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

May 1942. Washington, D.C. "Student's car in front of University Club on K Street N.W." Our second glimpse of these collegiate Colonials and their graffiti-garnished jalopy. Medium format acetate negative by John Ferrell for the Office of War Information. View full size.

May 1942. Washington, D.C. "Statue at the Pennsylvania Avenue entrance to the National Archives." Acetate negative by John Ferrell for the Office of War Information. View full size.

March 1942. Washington, D.C. "Interior of a drugstore on 14th Street N.W." Medium format acetate negative by John Ferrell for the Office of War Information. View full size.