[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY] -- [TRANSPORTATION]. A group of 10 cabinet cards and large format photographs.Large format albumen 7.5 x 9.5 in. (sight), building on a corner with a 1920s automobile in front. The building houses a barber, a restaurant and an F.O.E. lodge, with apartments above. Street lights appear to be electric, rather than gas.  Large format albumen (8 x 10.5 in. on larger mount), Batavia Tires store, with two of the proprietors standing at the entrance holding white tires. Off to the left side of the image is an antique gasoline pump. Likely Batavia, New York.Typed circular letter No. 83 and printed leaflet on stationery from the Cadillac Motor Car Company, Detroit, MI. Nov. 9, 1906. To Mr. J.M. Richardson, Lockland, Ohio. "Effective at once, all Model "H" cars [illeg.] by this company, will have the foot pedals assembled to [illeg.] independently of each other....     "The object in having the operation f the foot bake pedal throw out the main clutch on cars shipped heretofore, has been mainly for he convenience of the driver.     "In going down a steep hill, however, it is often [illeg.] to throw off the switch, let the momentum of the car drive the engine and thus have the engine, on it's compression, act as a brake. This saves a great amount of wear on the brake-bands.... Attached is a sketch showing the foot pedals and adjacent mechanism, also instructions for changing the construction on cars previously shipped to have the pedals act independently of each other." Stains and insect damage to right side of letter.  Photograph, 6.5 x 8 in. (corners have been rounded). Two men shaking hands, the one on the left is Glenn Curtiss, early aviation pioneer and founder of Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co. We feel like we should know the other gentleman in this grasp, but the name eludes us. Someone "out there" knows.Photo of a man standing beside a biplane (presume Mr. Borden), with "Another Greeting / "Spirit of Christmas" / Mitchell D. Borden / FCAC." 4.75 x 6 in.Three small boudoir cards (5 x 8 in.), titled in the negative. The first is partially cut off in the printing process, but partially reads: "2286 Idaho ???." A second one: "Mother Grundy: Clear Creek Canon C.C.R.R. TA. Thompson, phot." The third: "2003. Inspiration Point Colo. Div. U.P.R.R."Cabinet card of a boxcar, with "Newport News and Mississippi Valley Company" on the side. Card with "Built by the Ensign Manufacturing Co., Huntington, W. Va."Membership Card for the National Association of Retired and Veteran Railway Employees, No 109-Huntington, West Virginia. 1966.

Some chipping of mounts on the larger images.
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