Sod house in the Nebraska plains, 1887.
The R-1 won the 1932 Thompson Trophy race, piloted by Jimmy Doolittle. He lapped all but one ship in the race, made easy turns and never had to come down and make a tight pylon turn. He also set a new F.A.I. world landplane speed record of 296 mph (476 km/h) in the Shell Speed Dash.
The distinction of a landplane record was noteworthy because, at that time, racing seaplanes outran landplanes, such as the then current speed record holder, a Supermarine S.6B which had averaged 407.5 mph (655.8 km/h) on September 1931 The Gee Bee Model R Super Sportster was a special-purpose racing aircraft made by Granville Brothers Aircraft of Springfield, Massachusetts at the now-abandoned Springfield Airport. Gee Bee stands for Granville Brothers.
1935 Ford V8 Deluxe Fordor Sedan
with Detroit Lions football player George Washington “Tarzan” Christensen.
A woman on the frozen Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri, 1905.
That is amazing that as far south as St. Loius, the river was frozen on the surface to allow one to walk across.