Robert K. Austin picture file on the history of the automobile in America
Creation: 1877-1979Abstract
This collection consists of a picture reference file of American automobiles built between 1877 and 1979. Most pictures are illustrations clipped from magazines and other publications, but there are also some postcards, photographs, and ephemera items.
Dates
- Creation: 1877-1979
Creator
- Austin, Robert K., 1922-2022 (Person)
Extent
4 Linear Feet
Scope and Content
This collection consists of a picture reference file of American automobiles built between 1877 and 1979. Most pictures are illustrations clipped from magazines and other publications, but there are also some postcards, photographs, and ephemera items. More than 300 American auto-makers are represented, with particularly good coverage of early automobiles manufactured in the first decades of the twentieth century. Collection is arranged alphabetically by auto-maker; most files contain only one or two images of a single car model, though the files of larger firms such as Ford and Pontiac contain dozens of images of many different vehicle models. Some files contain brief company histories, presumably researched and written by Robert K. Austin.
Existence and Location of Copies
View selected items online in Hagley Digital Archives.
Access Restrictions
This collection is open for research.
Language of Materials
English
Subjects
Finding Aid & Administrative Information
- Title:
- Robert K. Austin picture file on the history the automobile in America
- Author:
- Laurie Rizzo
- Date:
- 2013.
- Description rules:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description:
- English
- Script of description:
- Latin
Repository Details
Repository Details
Part of the Audiovisual Collections Repository
