Old Orchard, Maine, circa 1904. "Alberta and Velvet hotels." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Old Orchard, Maine, circa 1904. "Beach in front of Sea Foam House." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Philadelphia circa 1906. "Chestnut Street." Continuing the nutty theme of recent posts. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. View full size.

September 7, 1922. Washington, D.C. "Playground baby show." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.

Good to see Tony W. back. His shot of the Mustang at Zion inspired me to haul out this one I took a year later, June 1972, near Lake Tahoe. Those were the days when, if a car happened to zip by as you were taking a shot, the chances of it being a VW Beetle were whole orders of magnitude greater than today. It's one of the interesting time-capsule details you notice in films of that period that have a lot of location filming, like on the streets of San Francisco in Bullitt or Dirty Harry; the sheer quantity of those things. Ektachrome slide. UPDATE May 2016: I've finally found out where this is: the VW is on California State Highway 89 approaching the intersection of State Highway 88 in the Hope Valley area south of Lake Tahoe. View full size.

Circa 1904. "Old Orchard, Maine. Ocean Pier." After a long walk on this long pier: Drink Moxie! 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. View full size.

New York circa 1905. "Mott Street." Another view of the funeral procession seen here. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. View full size.

Salem, Massachusetts, circa 1906. "Chestnut Street." Continuing the chestnut theme. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Baltimore, Maryland, circa 1905. "A chestnut vendor." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Newburgh, New York, circa 1906. "Water Street." Get your cloaks and mattings to-day! 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. View full size.

Cincinnati, Ohio, circa 1906. "Lake and clubhouse, Chester Park." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

My father and his sister traveled to Illinois from California with my great grandparents for my grandpa's wedding. This was taken on the trip back to Los Angeles through Zion National Park. My dad wishes the camera, a Kodak Brownie, could have caught the car in focus but I think it's cool like it is. View full size.

Circa 1905. "Old church at Jamestown, Virginia." Please, no pilfering. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

St. Paul, Minnesota, circa 1905. "Ryan Hotel." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

August 29, 1922. Washington, D.C. "Catherine May Byram, Plaza baby show." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.