Indiana Automobile Industry 1982

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Indiana Automobile Industry 1982

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=ohrc061

This project deals with the Automobile Industry in Indiana and why it declined. The interviewees discuss industry within Indiana, concentrating on Indianapolis in the nineteen twenties.

2 interviews; Audiotapes, transcripts, and collateral materials

eng,

Indiana University, Bloomington. Center for the Study of History and Memory

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SNAC Resource ID: 6625165

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