The First Day of Spring in Golden Gate Park, 1915. Photographer unknown. Courtesy of The Society of California Pioneers
Ansel Adams, photographing in Yosemite National Park from atop his car about 1942. By Cedric Wright. Courtesy of the Cedric Wright Family
Wigwam Motel, Holbrook, AZ. August 10, 1973. Copyright Stephen Shore, Courtesy of Edwynn Houk Gallery
Route 9W, New York, 1969. Copyright: Lee Friedlander
Guests of Sarasota trailer park, Sarasota, FL. By Marion Post Wolcott. Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Dorothea Lange, 1936. By Rondal Partridge. Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Buick roadster waits for horse-drawn wagon to pass on narrow country road above Liberty, N.Y., circa 1912. Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Copyright William Eggleston
In the spring and summer of 1903, Horatio Nelson Jackson, Sewall Crocker, and Bud the dog completed the first transcontinental automobile trip. Courtesy Special Collections, University of Vermont Library