My dad started Orplan in 1958 with brother-in-law Pat Longaker. Then he branched out with Customer Relations Control, a computerized followup program marketed to Automobile Dealers that provided greeting cards, survey, service, and thank you cards to the salesmen. All cards were conceived by Dad. We are posing with my Australian Sheppard Chico at the Concord Naval Weapons Depot in front of storage bunkers! Cards were photographed & produced by Mike Roberts in Berkeley.
Photos of the 1900's which brought us from the industrial age to the technological age.
From 1900 through 1999 we witnessed the beginning of flight to a man on the moon and a Mars Rover. We went from using phones tethered by cords and computers that filled rooms, to carrying the equivale...
The Eisenhower Years - A Time of Optimism and Growth
After the Great Depression and World War II, everyone was ready to take a breath and have fun. Population boomed, families moved to the suburbs, television (by the end of the decade) would be in most...
From Karl Benz in 1885 to Elon Musk's Tesla, cars have always been a passion for some. See the evolution of car technology and the types of cars that caught our fancy in the past.
In the 1880's, in an effort to invent an automobile that could be used every day - rather than just a fire pumper or a locomotive for special use - inventors tried steam, gasoline, or electricity as a...
Photos documenting holidays, special events, and celebrations.
Before the advent of photography, we didn't have a way to see visually what happened. Now, of course, we have over two centuries of visual recollections of how people celebrate the important events i...
Old photos of different types of transportation - trains, planes, automobiles, and more - as well as the people who piloted them.
Of air, water, and land, only flying through the air had eluded humans for millennia. Wheels on carts as well as river boats are known to have been used since 3500 B.C. But since that time - especiall...
Family History & Photos of Hendrick Van Tassel, William Gerard, & John Mc Robbie of Jefferson Co, NY - John Markland Aldridge (TN), Stephen Aldred, Zebedee Markland, Oscar Moore, Stephen Beach, Ignatius Ross (OH), John Hughes Holmes(CA), Clarissa Laine (IO), Samuel Jackson Lewis (CA), Euphemia Jackson Braden, James Barker (IL), Anthony Keithley Brinson (IN), Joel Lefferage Copher(IN), Martha Love, Cassandra Le Sueur, Sarah Foley (VA).