Cars+Trucks

Circa 1916. "Hackett Motor Car Co., Jackson, Michigan." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size. Another view here.

Washington, D.C., circa 1926. "National Delivery Association, Lincoln Memorial." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.

September 30, 1918. "Fourth Liberty Loan." Crowds gathered for a war-bond rally on Pennsylvania Avenue with the Capitol in the distance. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1924. "Ford Motor Co. -- Hanlon Lincoln hearse." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1922. "Southwest corner, 17th and Eye streets Northwest." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1919. "George Parezo & Co., Ninth Street N.W." An electrical appliance store in the early years of that retail category (top sellers included irons, coffeepots, vacuums, table lamps and toasters), on the eve of the emergence of a new a mass communications medium. "Wireless" transmissions, at first mostly marine and military telegraphy, now included civilian audio broadcasts heard on crystal-set headphones. Before long loudspeakers connected to vacuum tube receivers entered the mainstream, and "radio" was born. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.

Washington, D.C. "Semmes Motor Co. -- Krogmann & Sons truck, 1926." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.