Placerville, CA in 1913
So you like 'em old, 340doc? Well, are these old enough?:
Volunteers for the Union Army during the Civil War marching down the same street in Placerville to the stagecoach station:
The round sign on the building toward the upper left of the picture was the Studebaker wagon and blacksmith shop. The same emblem was retained for Studebaker cars after John Studebaker returned to Indiana and used the money he had saved in Placerville from making wagons and wheelbarrows to expand the family wagon business into car manufacturing. A Starbucks coffee store is now at this location.
Here's the first daguerreotype known to have been taken in Placerville, showing the covered wagons coming into town:
So you like 'em old, 340doc? Well, are these old enough?:
Volunteers for the Union Army during the Civil War marching down the same street in Placerville to the stagecoach station:
The round sign on the building toward the upper left of the picture was the Studebaker wagon and blacksmith shop. The same emblem was retained for Studebaker cars after John Studebaker returned to Indiana and used the money he had saved in Placerville from making wagons and wheelbarrows to expand the family wagon business into car manufacturing. A Starbucks coffee store is now at this location.
Here's the first daguerreotype known to have been taken in Placerville, showing the covered wagons coming into town: