Packard Motor Car Company photograph collection, 1899-1958.

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Packard Motor Car Company photograph collection, 1899-1958.

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Photographs include car models 1899-1958, photos of accessories, interiors, hood ornaments, factories, trucks, buses, dealerships, and celebrities with Packards. Many of the publicity shots of car models were done locally at Belle Isle, Cranbrook, in front of homes in Grosse Pointe, and outside the Packard plant on E. Grand Boulevard. Of this collection, 2,932 images have been digitized and are available in the Making of Modern Michigan database.

13,000 photographs.

Detroit Public Library, Detroit Main Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7807829

Detroit Public Library, Detroit Main Library

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Joy, Henry B. (Henry Bourne), 1864-1936

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President of the Packard Motor Company. From the description of Henry Bourne Joy papers, 1883-1937. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 84044682 From the description of Henry Bourne Joy papers, 1883-1937. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34422666 Automobile manufacturer, of Detroit, Mich. From the description of Henry B. Joy papers, 1812-1935 (Detroit Public Library). WorldCat record id: 454054971 Henry Bourne...

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,...

Packard, William Doud, 1861-1923

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