from 1895 to 1910 was an era of the horseless carriage and innovators who were trying every innovative way of making steam (5 of these are steam) or gasoline powered vehicles of incredible variety in designs

C. L. 1895 Simmonds' Steam Carriage

 The steering handle looks like a kids wagon handle.  1895 Electrobat Runabout

\1895 Joseph Shaver's Steam Buggy, Milwaukee, WI

 1895 Roger Petroleum Wagon

 1895 Victoria Motorette racine Motor vehcile co

 1895 Woods Electric Landau

 1896 Dey-Griswold Electric Phaeton

 1896 Enig Steamer, Jacksonville, FL

 1896 Hiram Percy Three Wheeler

 1897 Charles Burrows... wonder how long it took hime to learn that a narrow front end isn't good in corners

1897 Reeves Motor Wagon

 1898 Altham Deliver Van

 1898 Eastman Electro-Vehicle

 1898 Piper and Tinker Steam Buggy

 1898 Winton Delivery Wagon

 1899 General Electric Brougham

 1899 International Motor Wheel Delivery Van

 1899 International Motor Wheel Delivery Van

 1900 Coca Cola Wagon

 1900 Orient Autogo

1901 Century Tourist  Steamer

 1901 Ford Race Car

 1901 Ford Runabout

1901 Franklin

 1901 Trimotor Crescent

 1902 Automotor with a rumble seat... really is the progenitor of the rumble seat

 1902 Stearns Steam Surrey

 1902 Thomas Touring

 1902 Toledo

 1902 W.S. Rogers Transit Steam Wagon

 1902 Winton Bullet Race Car.

 1903  Oldsmobile Pirate Race Car

 1903 Duryea Three Wheeler

 1903 Mitchell

 1903 Oldsmobile enclosed body... wow, what a funky design

 1903 Pullman Six Wheel Touring

 1904 Oldsmobile Pie Wagon

 1904 Peerless Barney Oldfields' Racer,   this is the Green Dragon

 1905 Scharbach  (Hill Climber) Roadster

 1906 Shawmut The winner of the 1909 Pan Pacific Race from New York City to Seattle

 1907 Bugmobile

1907 Duer High Wheeler 

1907 Lansden Electrette

all of these and many more can be found at http://www.earlyamericanautomobiles.com/1890a.htm

Unusual, rare, and restored cars from the 1920's and 30's at the Nethercutt musuem

I hope you've been looking at my blog long enough to recognize these headlights as my favorite, they are the Woodlight type http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/woodlight%20headlights , and only came on two cars I know of, the DuPont occasionally, and this 1930 Ruxton in its factory paint, stripes of reds. Three other cars have had woodlights, a Stutz, Cord, and an Auburn but I suspect they were added by the owners. Most unusual for factory paint, but it was the midst of the great depression, and this was a luxury car that needed potential buyers attention. ( just like the glam rockers of the 70's and 80's and the big hair and makeup )

The above is movie star Fatty Arbuckle's 1923 McFarlan model 154 knickerbocker cabriolet

The above yellow is a 1934 Packard

Above and below, 1932 Mayback DS 8 / convertible cabriolet

the above is a 1925 Locomobile 48/ Victoria sedan

the above is a Toledo tiller steered, ever notice that a kids little red wagon has a handle that flips up or down, and is a very small example of a horse drawn wagon? Transpose that thought to the tiller steered early horse-less carriages and the way they had tiller steering that resembles a flipped up wagon tongue

On the left is the blue with a hood that looks like the Renault of the same era, but the Franklin was American and this example is a 1912 model G

This green with white baloon treadless tires is a 1906 Franklin, and particularly striking is the barrel shaped hood. The round hood was replaced by the slope hood like the 1912 Franklin above this

Beautiful brass accentuation pieces adorning this green and black Franklin

1910 Pierce Arrow 7 passenger touring

1912 White model GF

and the Lalique crystal hood ornament collection.