convertable

Great photo.

Very spiffy automobile. Lots of brass!

That's my grandfather - Roy Byron Aler (1887-1975) who was the carrier for RFD 1 out of Harbor Springs, MI for about 45 years starting in 1912. The date on the license plate is 1914. I have some similar photos and related postings at: picasaweb.google.com/donorgan/ReSmithsonian#

Hi Don!
It's great to hear from you, and thanks for the link! I will certainly forward this onto my colleagues at the National Postal Museum.

Sincerely,

Susannah
Smithsonian Institution Archives

Don - Here's an enlargement of the license plate

Thanks tecnogeo - 1914 it is.
To remove any doubt, I got a slightly better image off the similar
photo

Oh, this one hurts...1958 Chevy Impala convertible

From www.genevany.org/50/ '1912 Cyclone hit SW edge of Geneva on September 1; razed huge barns on White Springs Farm. ' And from www.belhurstcastle.com/whitehistory.html 'Sunday, September 1, 1912, was a day of disaster for White Springs Farm and the immediate vicinity. A cyclone wrought havoc, leveling the main group of dairy barns and uprooting most of the beautiful elms on the farm. A three-quarter ton dinner bell from one of the barns was found a half-mile away. Miraculously, there was no loss of human life, though four or five calves were killed. Clean-up operations were extensive, and tree experts were brought in to salvage what trees could be saved. Mr. Lewis sold the Guernseys, rather than replace the barns. By 1920 the cattle business was over.' Since then, the farm has apparently been a poultry farm, an orchard, a home for the elderly, and is now a hotel and winery.

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