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4 x 5 Photographs

[Art Klein - car 29] ca. 1915-1920

Joe Boyer - driver in race car ca. 1915-1920

Art Klein (Pengent) ca. 1915-1920

[Race car #18] ca. 1915-1920

[Race way - car #3 in pit] ca. 1915-1920

[Race car #8 - driver, crew, owner?] ca. 1915-1920

Oldsmobile - Lake Tahoe Tribune map car, summer ca. 1915-1920

Oldsmobile Lake Tahoe map car in the snow ca. 1915-1920

[Tribune map car parked in meadow - driver and co-pilot under a tree] ca. 1915-1920

[Tribune map car - getting it out of a rut] ca. 1915-1920

[Tribune map car and 3 men] ca. 1915-1920

[Press car - checking the tires] ca. 1915-1920

[Press car, four men, and a woman] ca. 1915-1920

[Two men and car parked by shoreline?] ca. 1915-1920

[Car parked in front of open window] ca. 1915-1920

[Examiner Scout car, license # 22-356, 1920 Cal.] ca. 1915-1920

[Nick's Cafe "Why not Eat? - map car parked in front] ca. 1915-1920

[Oldsmobile - Lake Tahoe car parked in front of building] ca. 1915-1920

5 x 7 Photographs

[Oldsmobile-Lake Tahoe car, License #A113, parked in front of portico] ca. 1915-1920

[Oldsmobile on top of mountain river with a bridge and car - double exposure] ca. 1915-1920

[Tribune map car - Lake Tahoe-Oldsmobile parked in front of rock mountain] ca. 1915-1920

[Nick's Cafe - Why not eat? - Tribune map car parked in front] ca. 1915-1920

[Tribune map car parked in front of lodge] ca. 1915-1920

[Tribune map car with driver and passenger on dirt road in mountains] ca. 1915-1920

Tribune map car - drive and passenger in front of water falls] ca. 1915-1920

[Tribune map car with driver and passenger parked next to snow patch] ca. 1915-1920

[Driver and passenger of Tribune map car having a snowball fight] ca. 1915-1920

[Tribune map car overlooking Lake Tahoe] ca. 1915-1920

[Tribune map car parked along shoreline - Lake Tahoe?] ca. 1915-1920

[Tribune map car parked in front of lodge - Lake Tahoe?] ca. 1915-1920

[Car with woman and child parked at vista with Half Dome in background] ca. 1920

[Camp Curry Studio - Yosemite] ca. 1915-1920

Los Angeles, Camp Curry Economy Run, Oakdale - Camp Curry Sociability Run ca. 1924

Sociability Run, Camp Curry, Modesto, CA. 5/13/1924

[Mother Curry holding "Loving cup" at rally] ca. 1920

8 x 10 photographs

[Young woman in car - feathered hat] ca. 1920-1925

Miss Estella Quilty, a society girl of San Jose, at the wheel of the 1923 Doble Steam car" 1923

[May Pole dance from top of Model A] ca. 1910-1919

[Model T perched on granite cliff - Half Dome in distance] ca. 1920s

"Beneath spray of Bridal Veil Falls - Charles Mathews, electrical engineer at Camp Curry, Yosemite and his Studebaker, Special Six Roadster are shown here in front of Bridal Veil Falls, most delicately beautiful of all Yosemite's famous waterfalls" ca. 1915-1925

"Crossing dangerous bridge covered with snow and ice" ca. 1910-1920

"None other in the rear seat wearing the black derby and th smile, than the newly appointed Chief Justice of the U.S., William Howard Taft. The Taft smile is a real one at all times and this elegant new model Roamer seems to please the ex-president immensely." ca. 1921

[Touring at the Carmel Mission] ca. 1920-1925

"Ruth Seamon, a very close friend of Mayne's when M.C. Hall and Mayne lived in S.F." ca. 1920-1925

[Officer talking with diplomats - P.P.I.E.?] ca. 1915-1920

"Ruth Seaman and M.C. Hall, auto editor of the Call Bulletin" ca. 1920-1925

[Ruth Seaman behind the wheel] ca. 1920-1925

[Ruth Seaman standing alongside car] ca. 1920-1925

"M. C. Hall driving Ruth Seaman" (M.C. was automobile editor for the Call Bulletin) ca. 1920-1925

[Car rally in Yosemite. Thirteen cars, drivers, passengers and friends] ca. 1920-1925

"The first auto meet held in California, held in 1902. Run was from San Mateo to Crystal Springs Dam, a part of the Spring Valley Water Company." 1902

[Two early cars on the beach below Cliff House, S.F.] ca. 1900-1910

[Two cars, each with two men, parked in front of hotel] ca. 1900-1920

11 x 4 Photographs

Famous drivers timing Boyer's first lap. Left to Right: Eddie O'Donnell, Eddie Pullen, Art Klein, Eddie Hearne, Roscoe Sarles. ca. 1920-1925

Art Kelin - Peugot (S.A. Elinord is the mechanic) ca. 1920

Tearing around the new speedway at 100 miles per hour. L to R: Roscoe Sarles in Frontenac (#41); Cliff Durant in Chevrolet (#1); Ira Vail in Philbrin Special (#14); Reeve Dutton in Stuty (#8) ca. 1920

Starters Frank Lowry congratulating Cliff Durant on the conclusion of an especially satisfactory practice laps made by the famous racer. Managing Young at the left in front of the car. Back of the car is a group of some of the noted drivers who will compete on the new L.A. Speedway February 21st. they are (L to R) Art Klein, Eddie Pullen, Eddie Hearne, Joe Boyer, Eddie O'Donnell, Ken Goodson, Roscoe Sarles. ca. 1920

Joe Boyer has taken his Frontenac teammates to the new L.A. Speedway in his "CAD" and is pointing out the 35% bank on the turns of the new Beverly Hills course. (L to R) Ken Cookson, Joe Boyer, Joe Thomas, Roscoe Sarles. ca. 1920

U. S. Senator Key Pittman and wife; Mr. McAdoo and wife ca. 1920-1925

Captain Eddie Rickenbacker who arrives in SF tommorrow on tour of coast is receiving a royal welcome at California cities. Reception committee in Marinori car greet the ace. (L to R) Eleanor Barnes, Richenbacker, Henry and Bert L. Farmer. ca. 1920-1925

Fat Larne - center; Corbett - left; unknown - right ca. 1920-1925

From Long Beach to Yosemite in our two cars filled with relations from Iowa and South Dakota. ca. 1910-1920

[Man in car with three women, one man standing outside of car offering food to a bear standing on the running board of car] ca. 1920-1925

[Man and woman in convertible car looking at Half Dome] ca. 1910-1920

[Camp Curry entry with car and cartoon characters] ca. 1920-1925

Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle strikes a pose in his new Don Lee custom built Cadillac Town car ca. 1920-1925

Manager A.M. Young and Joe Boyer just before Boyer took Young for a spin around the track in his Frontenac ca. 1920-1925

[Chevrolet 1, race car] ca. 1920-1925

Roscoe Sarles - Frontenac ca. 1920-1925

Eddie Hearne, the National Champion who is starting is 1920 champion with the L.A. Speedway opening races February 21, 1920

"The first auto meet held in California, held in 1902. Run was from San Mateo to Crystal Springs Dam, a part of the Spring Valley Water Company." 1902

[Two early cars on the beach below Cliff House, S.F.] ca. 1900-1910

[Two cars, each with two men, parked in front of hotel] ca. 1900-1920

Automotive miscellany

San Francisco Examiner Automobile Section

Panama Pacific International Exposition edition February 20, 1915

12/10/1921

5/27/1922

San Francisco Motor Car Dealers, Yosemite Run, Special Edition of the San Francisco Call Automobile Department

v.1:1 8/6/1921

v.2:1 5/20/1922

Clippings ca. 1921-1925

Miscellaneous issues - subjects: Pearl Harbor; U.S. Declaration of War on Japan; Ike elected; Eddie Rickenbacker ca. 1941-1952