New Haven, Conn., circa 1908. "Delta Psi fraternity house, Yale University." Note the Fire Alarm Telegraph Station at right. 8x10 glass negative. View full size.

Circa 1905. "Broadway & Fifth Avenue, looking east, Knoxville, Tennessee." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Mobile, Alabama, circa 1910. "Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Conti Street." 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. View full size.

Circa 1913. "Alexander Bridge Road, Chickamauga, Georgia." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Memphis circa 1910. "Lion house (Carnivora Building), Overton Park Zoo." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Mobile, Alabama, circa 1910. "Bienville Hotel, Bienville Square." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

The Detroit River circa 1910. "Detroit waterfront." When Ferry met Sooty. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Circa 1902. "Alma Sanitarium, Alma, Michigan." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative by Lycurgus Solon Glover, Detroit Photographic Co. View full size.

Detroit circa 1910. "Griswold Street looking toward Ford Building." Our title comes from the tailor shop at left. 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size.

Circa 1904. "Long Beach Hotel, Long Beach, Long Island, N.Y." On July 29, 1907, this "Riviera of the East" burned to the ground after an electrical fire broke out in an upstairs storeroom. 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size.

Circa 1906. "Bathing at York Beach, Maine." Where seaside resorts include the Fairmount and the Wahnita. 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size.

New York circa 1912. "Broadway, looking north from Cortlandt Street and Maiden Lane." Our second look in recent weeks at the Woolworth Building in the final stages of construction. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative. View full size.

Circa 1904. "Fifth Avenue at Grant Street, South Pittsburg, Pa." The Frick Building at left. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

June 1940. "Melrose, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. Daughter of mulatto family returning home after fishing in the Cane River." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

        UPDATE: Commenter 426hemi has identified our mystery ride as a 1917 Olympian Motors "Tourist" touring car. The Olympian, made in Pontiac, Mich., lasted from 1917 to 1921; the image above might be, as far as the Internet is concerned, one of the very few (if not only) surviving contemporary photographs of this rare bird.

Circa 1917 San Francisco is the backdrop for this unlabeled shot of four motorists in their anonymous auto, bound for points unknown. With, by the look of things, not a moment to spare! 5x7 glass negative by Christopher Helin. View full size.