this is a stagecoach museum in San Diego's Old Town, (now a state park / tourist attraction) it was the original settlement in San Diego

Tere did a much better job of posting a thorough gallery of this museums wagons and stagecoaches, see it here http://justacargal-s.blogspot.com/2011/05/seeley-stable-museum-in-old-town.html

Look at these leather straps that make the suspension

This is amazing, 30, 40 pounds of leather straps holding the cab over the chassis

I bet nothing in Racine remains of this Mitchell Lewis & Co

The above and below are Studebakers, the only company I've heard of to transition from carriages to automobiles

between the age of horse drawn stagecoaches and the age of brass and horseless carriages

1899 Hautier 1911 Aberdonia Park Royal Landau

Above 1926 Hispano Suiza

1913 Thames, body by Thrupp Mabery

1909 Babcock electric brougham

and just for fun, and the wonder of it, I add the following

The George Barris Revere and the Raiders coach

stagecoach and a DC 3, this strange photo has been revealed by Steve to be part of a 1949 advertisement

Top photo found on http://steampunkvehicles.tumblr.com/

Steve found that this is from an advertisement that American Airlines ran in various magazines in 1949. This one is from the April 4, 1949 issue of Time.

The title reads "This month a grand old plane makes its last flight." The copy states that the DC-3 (21 passengers at 200 mph) was being replaced by the DC-6 (52 passengers at 300 mph) and the Convair CV-240 (40 passengers at 300 mph). The DC-4 (44 passengers at 227 mph) had been retired by the airline the year before.