UPDATE: I love it when I can combine old photos with documentation. In this case, I discovered that Stanley W. Smale had filed a patent for his metal sweeper. Stanley filed his Magnetic Sweeper patent on January 10, 1950.

From his patent: “An object of this invention is to provide an apparatus of such size and mobility that it can be used to remove ferrous articles from roads, parking lots or any surface over which vehicles may travel, in an effective, speedy and economical manner.

Another object of this invention is to provide a mobile magnetic field of sufficient force to not only pick up loose items, but pieces embedded below the surface which might normally be forced upwardly through the surface by frost or other disturbing influences.”

One Post, The Jeep Goes International, is from 2015 and included this excerpt:

Original Post from June 2014: “Press Photo Stanley Smale & magnet equipped Jeep for sweeping metal”

UPDATE: Fred provided information indicating the photo was taken around 1945 at the Place de la Concorde in Paris.

Roger Martin shared this photo from Facebook.

This photo was published in the October 21, 1944, issue of the Saturday Evening Post.

Allan shared the news that Jake Skoric, a photographer with who took photos before during (in the South Pacific) and after WWII will have his photos being sold over the next three days. As you can see in the preview photos here, there are thousands of photos being sold.

Read the story here: https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/milwaukee/2019/04/05/estate-sale-features-unusual-gallery-6-000-black-and-white-photos/3368768002/

View the estate sale info here: https://www.estatesales.net/WI/Milwaukee/53220/2166789

There’s something about these two photos I find simultaneously hypnotic and eerie (maybe ghostly?). I can’t quite figure out why that is. I can feel the wind blowing in them.

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“*1940’s – 50’s
(2) 2 1/4″ B&W Negatives
** Jeep Willys Wagon **
*** Medium Format Film ***
See Photos”

With all those people around, why not try to pick it up and out of the hole? These may have been taken on the Oregon Coast.

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“Three original photos of a flat fender Willys Jeep getting stuck in the sand. The bottom photo measures 2-3/4″ x 3-3/4″, The top two photos measures 2-1/2″ x 3-1/2″. Great condition.”

This photo was published in the February 09, 1945, issue of the Saturday Evening Post, page 12. It shows a Weasel getting a muddy test with a jeep next to it.

Note the modified side entrance of this jeep on the February 2, 1943, photo of President Roosevelt.

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A nurse was wounded in this jeep on Saipan in 1944.

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“ORIGINAL WWII PHOTO – ORIGINAL TO THE TIME – NOT A COPY, SCAN, OR REPRO
QUANTITY: 1 – See the other original WWI & WWII photos that I have listed.
ITEM: Original WWII CONFIDENTIAL photo of Jeep that US Army Nurse 2nd Lt. Helen Lynch was wounded in on Saipan, 1944. Part of a large group of original PTO photos that I am listing. Most are of the Invasion and Occupation of Saipan and a few are of Tinian.

DATE: 1944 – photo does not glow under a black light.
SIZE: 3.75″ x 5”
CONDITION: Very Good; See scans..
BACK: Has paper tag with hand-typed description. Stamped “CONFIDENTIAL”. See last scan.”

UPDATE: **SOLD** Was on eBay.

Here are an assortment of jeep-related pics on eBay

1. British Airborne jeep with littler attached. This is a negative. Seller has other, similar negatives.
   
2. Person in jeep.
   
3. 1945 Photo of USMC jeep. This photo comes from a scrapbook that includes a history of its owner, Marine Captain Lewis Brazeal:
   
4. 1944 Photo of US Navy Officer in Penarth, Wales, with Welsh Terror on the jeep hood.
   

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I’m guessing this photo was part of the 1955 CJ-5 introduction?

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“Vintage Jeep Vehicles News & Photos Press Photo KAISER JEEP CORPORATION”

Is that a truck-bed trailer?

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“Vintage Jeep Vehicles News & Photos Press Photo WILLY’S 8 X 10”

This photo captures a military test of a jeep lashed to a raft in a Los Angeles lagoon.

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“1942 Press Photo La, Calif. Army jeep on a raft in Army demonstration. Photo measures 9 x 7 inches. Photo is dated 7-3-1942.”

The price on these two identical photos is good. The photo appears to have been taken on September 20, 1950.

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“Original Korean War Press Photo dated 1950. (2 identical) Jeep unloaded from a Flying Boxcar plane at Kimpo Airport, taken by Photographer Stanley Tretick. 7X9″ the image itself is a bit grainy but theyre in great shape.”

This photo appeared in the February 03, 1945, issue of the Saturday evening Post, page 18.

This article was published on June 29, 1944, in the Sotoyome Scimitar newspaper out of Healdsburg, California. Mario shared it on Facebook.

Roger Martin spotted this odd looking jeep-truck on Facebook. The caption indicates it was taken in December of 1960 in Vienna, Austria.