History Photos taken before WW2 - history in black and white

More. Woops, I knew that would happen and I don't know how to delete an attachment. Sorry.

 

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MAybe more.

 

More.

 

The last pic here is the only one type I know to exist. There are about 5 of these known to exist. They are called light repair trucks, carried lots of tools to fix otehr trucks and tanks. I've seen one of the 5. The first pic in this group COULD be the first cross country military voyage in which Ike Eisenhour was part of. He may have been a Lt. at the time. The bad roads of the time gave him the idea for a need of Interstate roads, which he built when he was President. A friend was on the reenactment a few years ago. They convoyed from Gettysburg, Pa. to Calif.

 

A few more.

 

More.

 

Last of the military pics. Hope you learned something. I did the first time I saw them. I'd LOVE to find a pickup bed like is in the last pic. It fits into a roadster truck area.

 

Heres a old family pic. During the dust bowl.

 

Chrysler offered that type of bed for 30's coupes and called them utilities. They look like they'd be fairly simple to construct, there may be some patent or other drawings around.
I read Dodges were used in the first mechanized cavalry charge during the Mexican-American war. Wonderful pics, thanks

 

FDR at the special hand controls of his Plymouth PA, November 29, 1933, at Warm Springs,
GA. Both photos are thanks to AllPar and Jim Benjaminson.

 

FDR pix are showing for me. ArtFromBama says NO. If anybody else has the problem, I'll just delete t keep the thread clean. THANKS!

 

Nope, just seeing a "Please visit Allpar.com" image.

-Dave

 

Showing all right for me.

Mart.

 

Well, I've been trying to find them on another source, without success. Some see them, some don't. I'll remove them, if a majority agree it's for the best. Lemme know a consensus. Thanks.

 

According to DownEast, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was thwarted in summer
1933 when she attempted a relaxing getaway by motor to Caribou, Maine. She
wound up leading a parade, to the delight of the local populace! Looks
like one nice Buick there!

 

Check out this neat American Austin at theoldmotor.com

 

Here's a shot of Eleanor and her '33 Plymouth Roadster. Below is a letter from Walter Chrysler, sent to the White House in 1933 regarding her car.

 

RE PRE-World-WARII pix: I remember seeing an informal photo of FDR and Eleanor with their '33 DeSoto. BUT I cannot find it again to post here.

Mostly you see LOTS of pix of the Roosevelts in big luxury parade cars, etc. It is THESE lower-price cars they had for personal use in the first term that really fascinate me.

Rather like harry & Bess' TWO Chryslers ... but those are post-war and not for this thread

 

This is a photo-op orchestrated by the DeSoto factory, though the shot I remember is quite
informal, shows Franklin and Eleanor with the DeSoto AND shows the whole car, with
distinctive '33 grille. Walter Miller of AutoLit on eBay offers an original darkroom print from
the factory negative, should anyone be interested. Thanks, Walter!

 

All of the following are thanks to 20th Century History at About.com.
If any are repeats, someone please IM me & I'll remove them.

(Picture courtesy the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library)
Franklin D. Roosevelt in Campobello. (1908)

(Picture courtesy the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library)
Franklin D. Roosevelt in Warm Springs, Georgia. (May 1929)
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(Picture courtesy the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library)
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. in Troy, New York. (May 1930)





(Picture courtesy the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library)
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Earl Miller
in Savannah, Illinois. (April 19, 1932) ​

 

(Picture courtesy the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library)
Franklin D. Roosevelt on Campobello Island. (June 16, 1933)

(Picture courtesy the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library)
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933) ​

 

I see your smiley, so I'll add one too. The title says before WW2, is that the beginning or the end of the war? If FDR is in any pic it's before the end, because he never got to see it. Major time in history, and a fine DeSoto with a major player in woman's history. Pics are OK aren't they?

 

Agreed! Here are a few more shots of Eleanor.

 

Found it! It was shuffled among some old-car ads our HAMB bud SunRoofCord
sent me a while back. There's Eleanor, and this appears to be from the same
shoot, said to have been taken at Hyde Park by a factory photog. APPEARS to
be on the occasion of delivery -- to Franklin. My memory was
obviously off, as the grille is not in the frame.



Eleanor & Franklin, '33 DeS, Hyde Park, NY.

 

This picture was in old forgotten family photographs. One of my uncles took the picture. He is no longer with us. This was a new 1937 Chevrolet Coupe. My uncle didn't say so but this had to have been a fatal accident. Eastern Washington.

 

When I lived in Corbett, Oregon I befriended an elderly member of the Latourelle family that Latourelle Falls and the ghost town of Latourelle, Oregon was named after. He had been a photographer and made his living taking pictures of waterfalls along the Columbia River. He had one of thos "slide" cameras that were used for taking pictures of Military units, except he turned his on it's side and took full length pictures of waterfalls in the Columbia Gorge. I asked him if he had any pictures of old cars and he gave me these. The one of the car on the Mexican-US border doesn't look too impressive today but that was early in the 20th Century and they drove all the way through Oregon and California and back home. The roads were primitive and deplorable.