A visual identification field guide to enemy aircraft during world war 2, I wish I had noted where I found it

another wild variety of photos from Formicarius.tumblr.com, from Queens and Kaisers to carnival coaster cars and pirate women in Ostrich carts

1890's quadricycle with a Maxim machine gun mounted and beign tested for army contract consideration

Total car kid awesomeness! Want!

Proabably for a private little rail backyard fun... but the cutest damn thing I think I've seen all day

Pirate women ostrich racing... most bizarre thing we'll see all week?

Kaiser Wilhelm and blimps! Steampunk delux

incredible yes? http://formicarius.tumblr.com for hours of distraction from the mundane

a variety of interesting things found while browsing through the library online photos

George B. Selden in his first automobile, patented 1895... but marked 1877 because that was the year he made it.

a photo of the first automobile

 1886 Benz

 1903 Olds Pirate, a one cylinder special race car that held a record for the one mile speed record

 1904 curved dash Olds

 1907 sports racer

 1906 Stanley

 Suposed to be the first limo in America

 J. M. Quinby & Company; Builders of aluminum automobile bodies 1909

Mercer

I noticed the odd sign above the storefront "Automobile Jobbers"

 1944 east 138th street ... and that truck bed in the bottom of the photo looks handmade, and put into the rumble seat area... was the neat trick to shift a car classification during fuel rationing during WW2 from car to commercial truck and then it could get more gas more often if I recall correctly.. and this is a 1944 photo

Electric car about 1905, on the charger in the garage

 the caption on the side says "Brooklyn Auto Graveyard"

 Stuck in a mud hole (DEEP one) in Texas 1919

The Czar leaving the racecourse at Krasnoe Selo, in his 40 horse-power Delaunay Belleville in 1909

Above racing at Indy

Above and below, racing at Ormand Beach

Barney Oldfield in the advertising

the trophys from the 1908 Prince Henry tour

1922 advertisement

the caption to the above drawing seems to be "When Greek meets Greek" and I don't understand it

this advertisement was captioned "his Herreshoff car"

 The Pullman car Palmyra

 Tenth Avenue and 29th Street, Manhattan. December 23, 1935

found while searching around at http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital