The Isotta-Fraschini from the movie Sunset Boulevard

first given to Peggy Hopkins Joyce, a 1920s socialite, by her boyfriend Walter Chrysler

this last image is from the scene where Cecil B De Mille appears, and his charge for being in this film was 10,000 dollars and a new Cadillac. 

1885 to 1929 interesting cars

 1885 horseless carriages in Russia

 1893 Haynes with E. Haynes in both photos. It was the first successful automobile in America

 1901 Franklin

 1902 Cadillac

 1904 Caddilac

 1907 Isotta Fraschini (really shiny paint)

 1908 Ford, the first model T

 1916 Studebaker landaulet roadster (I've got thought that a roadster can't be a landaulet, and vice versa)

 1925 Lincoln club roadster with body by LeBaron

 1925 Locomobile

1929 Studebaker with Neysa McMein (great first name) she was a designer at Studebaker

Found digging through the photos at http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/