Vanderbilt Cup Races

The 1906 Vanderbilt Cup Race

"Goodbye, dear, be careful and don't fail to bring back the cup - you know I do so want it for our sideboard."

"Drat Them Telegraph Poles"

"He must be one of those fabulously successful Long Island real estate speculators we've heard so much about - he owns 800 feet of rail fence along the Jericho turnpike."

"Only mental attitude picture ever taken."

The five American qualifiers for the 1906 Vanderbilt Cup Race.

"The winner of the 1906 Vanderbilt Cup Race"

The Long Island Motor Parkway

A one page look into the future building of the Motor Parkway was done by Thiede in November, 1906. 

""Bright and early" one morning Mr. W.K. Vanderbilt arrives upon the scene of action with his corps of engineers and road builders."

"Under his supervision the proposed roadway soon becomes the ground of remarkable activity."

"In order to maintain pace in the progress of the road builders the steam rollers putting on the finishing touches are in constant conflict with the speed law."

"Unfortunately the day is without its mishaps.  A luckless farmer driving along at a point where it was necessary to make a deep cut was overtaken by the diggers coming up behind him, and wagon and horse and farmer were precipitated into the excavation."

"The fact that the new roadway was finished 1 hour and 30 minutes before the scheduled time was the source of deep disappointment to the committee which assembled at the finishing line to receive Mr. Vanderbilt.  Instead of Mr. V. they saw the  beautifully finished boulevard."

Packard

Thiede also produced this illustration for Packard for use in their employer publication, the "Cosmobogus" - "A Reckless Compendium of Our Cautious Contemporaries." (November, 1911)

Here is the same illustration except for the addition of two women passengers that was used in this undated Packard ad in "Life" magazine.