Don't start the motor just yet!

 

Horse Racing Winner's Circle Photos

Check out this old post too!

 

Macy's Parade Balloons - c. 1940

Tommy's Sales Booklet

Help is Needed!

The Historical Society of Bloomfield's Mr. Rich Rockwell has posted new pictures of Bloomfield, Montclair and Glen Ridge houses from the famous Nathan Russell collection.  He has identified 274 from Bloomfield, 137 from Glen Ridge and 31 from Montclair. Visit the site to see them!

Like the one below (my favorite) here are the ones that are unidentified...

Montague Roberts - 1908 in Indiana

Seen before, but a new print was obtained, noting Indiana. 

Ediphone Works Committee

See the Wax Beatles!

A Bromo Seltzer Sized Crowd

Not a beach day, by the clothes. 

Bon Voyage

Good bye, we'll miss you, but we're apparently fine here too. 

Chuck and his Market

Sell the sizzle

Deco Gal

On Back: "Aunt Chloe in her Store"

No other ID. 

Laying Sidewalk - Perth Amboy, NJ 1938

Depression Era

Basin View. Great Falls - Paterson New Jersey

The Latest Schwacha

Godinger Pepper Mill

Large Print. Edward Hopper "House on Pamet River" - 1934

Image size: 12.5 x 18 in.

Caged Image

Fresh Fruit Left, Canned, Right

Hacksaw Justice For Any Shoplifters.

Early Grocery Market Perhaps 1930. 

Pittsburgh View 1817

Long Island Discovery - The Courtland Smith Map of Long Island - 1961

Latest acquisition is going "Home" to the Bretscher household in Rockville Center, Long Island.

This is the 1961 version of the original 1933 edition of Courtland Smith’s perennially popular map.

Pictorial map of Long Island, from Brooklyn and Queens to the Hamptons and Montauk. Landmarks such as Montauk Lighthouse, the beach at Southampton, and the Fire Island Light are shown. The Atlantic Ocean and Long Island Sound are decorated with various pictorial illustrations including a striped bass, swordfish, spouting whale, and the Sag Harbor Whaler ship. Other decorations include an Art Deco wind figure and compass rose. An intricate border is decorated at the top with underwater scenes; on the sides with famous sites such as Birthplace of John Howard Payne, East Hampton, and Jones Beach; and with historical events, such as the settlement of Brooklyn and building of Brooklyn Bridge. The key indicates radio stations, state parks, ferry lines, small light houses, and mainland.

Aviation for Young Readers

When we still had organ grinders and Blimps.

1944

The Company You Keep - 150 Years With New York Life

Fine Coffee Table Book from 1995. 

Detailed history of New York Life Insurance Company with numerous historic pictures. 

Washington and his mother

...and their cow. 

Newark Airport - 1940

Here's the Great Race Again...(referenced five other times on this blog)

Relative Montague "Monty" Roberts, a well-known race car driver, was the driver of the team when it started in Times Square, NY. With only minor intervals so he could rest, he was the sole driver to Wyoming during a very rough 1908 winter. He had to give up the wheel (The Thomas Flyer was in the lead) at Cheyenne, Wyoming as he had to get back to New York for a contractual obligation to practice for the French Grand Prix race later that year (1908).  The Thomas Company mechanic he personally selected, George Schuster, finished the race as driver. George was an amazing man, he was not a known race car driver as Monty was, yet he took the wheel and drove basically from Cheyenne to Paris, France, including through the terrible terrain of Siberia. 

There was only one American entry. If it wasn't for Monty, there would be none. He convinced Mr. Thomas, owner of the E.R. Thomas Motor Co. to enter his car.