"Grace's flowers -- 18 Sept 1951." In this latest episode of Minnesota Koda­chromes the outlook is, regardless of the weather, Sunny and Warm. Color slide by Hubert Tuttle of his lovely wife and her beautiful flowers. View full size.

Denver socialite Ann Bonfoey Taylor with her oilman husband Vernon "Moose" Taylor and their sons among the aspens at the Vail ski resort in 1967. Medium-format negative by Toni Frissell for Vogue magazine. View full size.

        Steel magnate Charles Schwab's 75-room, $6 million beaux-arts chateau on the Upper West Side, completed in 1906, was razed in 1948 and replaced by an apartment building.

New York circa 1910. "C.M. Schwab residence 'Riverside'." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

    Latest entry in the Shorpy Concours of Complicated Contraptions.

San Francisco circa 1919. "Peerless tank truck." Last seen here, and a cousin to this Red Cross tanker used, to no discernible effect, to wet down streets during the influenza epidemic of the late teens. 5x7 glass negative. View full size.

Long Island or Connecticut circa 1929. "Unidentified women, possibly Elizabeth Duncan dancers." 4x5 nitrate negative by Arnold Genthe. View full size.

        Motorcycle racing 103 years ago at the old Benning horse track in Washington.

May 30, 1912. "National Capital Motorcycle Club -- Decoration Day motor races at Benning track." National Photo Company glass negative. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1925. "Transportation Building, corner 17th and H Sts." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.

1948. "George Daniels Pontiac, Van Ness Avenue." The San Francisco car dealer­ship whose interior we've seen here. 8x10 acetate negative. View full size.

1864. "Civil War R.R. operations, bridges and equipment -- Railway Bridge across Platt Creek (vicinity of Knoxville, Tenn.)" Wet plate negative. View full size.

March 1942. Washington, D.C. "Bus going through the snow near Connecticut Avenue and Chevy Chase Circle." No one ever moved to Washington for the weather! Photo by John Ferrell for the Office of War Information. View full size.

Shelter Island, New York, circa 1904. "Bathing at Manhanset House." Our fourth visit with these people. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative. View full size.

"Oldsmobile Coupe, 1928." Along with some exotic specimens representing the flora and fauna of San Francisco. 5x7 inch glass negative. View full size.

March 9, 1945. "Marin-Dell dairy truck, San Francisco." Truck experts please weigh in on the particulars of this rig. 8x10 inch nitrate negative. View full size.

September 1951. "Walt Disney oiling parts of the locomotive of his scale model steam railroad, the Carolwood Pacific Railway, in the backyard of his house in Los Angeles." Medium-format nitrate negative by Earl Theisen for the Look magazine assignment "Walt Disney's Giant Little Railroad." View full size.

New York circa 1900. "Snow in Central Park." Mush, Rover! Mush! 8x10 inch glass plate by "Byron" for the Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.