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Plates of the States

Some Web pages are trivial, like this one. It is planned to be simply the photographs of license plates from the 50 United States and some others, perhaps, like DC, Govt. plates, etc. The only thing that might make it at all interesting is that the photos will all come from shots taken with my own cameras. The plates will, therefore, need to be on cars I see [when I have a camera!], and that means they will almost all be in eastern Massachusetts when I take the photographs. Time will tell how the project turns out. There will be blanks for a long time.

We did take a trip to Pennsylvania in April '09, and we saw lots of plates as we were driving, but it isn't possible to get photos safely while traveling at 65 miles per hour (105 kph). Opportunities missed...oh, well. I guess the shots will still mostly come from parking lots in Massachusetts.

On April 15, 2010, I got a photo of a Wyoming plate, I'd had five to go for quite a while, and now just four more. I'm going to be a chaperone for the trip to Washington, D.C. next week. Maybe I'll get lucky there. It is school vacation week and there may be people in the capital from the states I still need, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota and West Virginia. I'm willing to bet the trip will give me my best shot at West Virginia, at least.

A long time has passed, about a year. It is June of 2011 and I'm stalled. Only Nevada and North Dakota remain to catch. I'll admit, I don't go searching as intensely as I used to. I'm resigned to stumbling upon them.

North Dakota #49, right in front of me

The penultimate stumble has happened. As I pulled to a stop at the traffic light by the Wellesley, MA fire station, there was a car bearing a North Dakota plate. That leaves me with Nebraska as the one "hole" in the grid below. Will the quest be complete in 2012? It's been almost three years. I spoke to someone who said her family does a game of plate ID on their annual trip to Maine and that they always get all fifty. They certainly have sharper eyes than I do.

First posted January 3, 2009
(26 June 21, 2009 - 35 as of August 1, 2009 - 41 as of Labor Day Sept. 7, 2009, 46 by 4/15/2010 - 49 by 8/21/2012)
image: Alabama plate
Alabama		 image: Alaska plate
Alaska		 image: Arizona Plate
Arizona		 image: plate of Arkansas
Arkansas		 image: California plate
California
image: colorado plate
Colorado		 image: Connecticut plate
Connecticut		 image: Delaware plate
Delaware		 plate image: Florida
Florida		 image: plate georgia
Georgia
image: Hawaii plate
Hawaii		 image: Idaho plate
Idaho		 image: Illinois plate
Illinois		 image: plate Indiana
Indiana		 image: plate Iowa
Iowa
image: Kansas plate
Kansas		 image: Kentucky plate
Kentucky		 image: plate Louisiana
Louisiana		 image: Maine plate
Maine		 image: Maryland plate
Maryland
image: Massachusetts Plate
Massachusetts		 plate image: Michigan
Michigan		 image: Minnesota Plate
Minnesota		 image: plate of Mississippi
Mississippi		 plate image: Missouri
Missouri
image: Montana plate
Montana		 Nebraska image: Nevada plate
Nevada		 image: New Hampshire plate
New Hampshire
image: New Jersey plate
New Jersey
plate image: New Mexico
New Mexico		 image: plate New York
New York		 plate image: North Carolina
North Carolina		 plate: North Dakota
North Dakota		 image: Ohio plate
Ohio
image: Oklahoma plate
Oklahoma		 image: plate of Oregon
Oregon		 image: Pennsylvani plate
Pennsylvania		 image: Rhode Island plate
Rhode Island		 image: South Carolina plate
South Carolina
image: South Dakota
South Dakota		 image: Tennessee plate
Tennessee		 image: Texas Plate
Texas		 image: Utah plate
Utah		 plate: Vermont
Vermont

image: Virginia plateVirginia		 image: Washington plate
Washington		 image: plate West Virginia
West Virginia		 plate image: Wisconsin
Wisconsin		 image: Wyoming Plate
Wyoming

Non US Plates and unusual plates:
plate: Massachusetts Pupils
Massachusetts has special plates for school busses.		 image: plate ma-official
Official Massachusetts vehicles have a special plate.		 image: Consul plate
Consul Plate (US)s
plate image: US Govt.
US Govt. Gen. Services Admin.		 image: Washington DC
District of Columbia		 image: North Carolina transporter plate
North Carolina, Transporter
image: Brunswick Canada
New Brunswick, Canada		 image: plate of Ontario image: Quebec, Ca plate
Quebec, Canada

image: Nova Scotia plate
Nova Scotia		 image: Nuevo Leon, Mexico plate
Nuevo Leon, Mexico