The Lincoln Highway-Packard truck photograph collection, 1911.

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The Lincoln Highway-Packard truck photograph collection, 1911.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53220434

An unbound scrapbook containing photographs and handwritten narrative on the 1911 transcontinental tour of a Packard 1910 model truck. The trip took one month and went from Indiana to California, primarily on the Lincoln Highway.

1 scrapbook..5 linear ft.

Detroit Public Library, Detroit Main Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7666011

Detroit Public Library, Detroit Main Library

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Packard motor car company

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The Packard Twin-Six was manufactured and sold in 1915. Joy made a trip in the spring of 1915 and Waldron made several trips afterwards, maybe as early as the fall of 1915, when Waldon was the General Manager of Packard. Henry B. Joy was born on Nov. 23, 1864, the son of James F. and Mary (Bourne) Joy. After graduating from Phillip's Academy (Andover, Mass.), Sheffield Scientific School, and Yale University, he began life as an office boy with the Pennisular Car Co., working his way up to clerk,...