Lincoln Highway Association archive, 1912-1939.

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Lincoln Highway Association archive, 1912-1939.

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Collection contains: materials from the central office in Detroit, Michigan, dating from 1912 up through the late 1930s; includes correspondence, manuscript trip logs, minutes of meetings of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee, reports, contracts, membership sales and subscriptions records, planning documents, financial statements, press releases, publications, guides, including the 1928 logbook of Lincoln Highway markers, and strip maps; a set of 6 drawings by noted landscape architect Jens Jensen for the Indiana "Ideal Section"; and 2,809 photographs taken by Association board members and field secretaries of the Highway, including views of construction underway, records of reconnaisaance trips, tourists, cities and towns, markers, bridges, cars, camp sites, scenic views, and portraits of Association members and various businessmen and government officials. The photographs were taken in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, and California. Digital facsimiles of the photographs may be viewed at The Lincoln Highway Digital Image Collection: Archive contains copies of all editions of The Complete Official Road Guide of the Lincoln Highway, including annotated and edited copies belonging to Roy Chapin, Gael Hoag, and H.C. Ostermann.

4 linear ft.10 v.6 crayon and pencil drawings.2,809 b&w photographs.

University of Michigan

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SNAC Resource ID: 8260591

University of Michigan

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Bement, Austin.

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Hoag, Gael.

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Pardington, Arthur.

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Ostermann, Henry J.

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Chapin, Roy D. (Roy Dikeman), 1880-1936

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Papers of Roy D. Chapin, Jr., chairman of the board of American Motors Corporation. From the description of Roy D. Chapin papers, 1942-1978. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34419057 President of Hudson Motor Car Company and U.S. Secretary of Commerce, 1932-1933. From the description of Roy Dikeman Chapin papers, 1886-1937. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34418948 Roy D. Chapin, automobile manufacturer and secretar...

Jensen, Jens, 1860-1951

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Mormon from Cottonwood Ward, Utah. From the description of History of Alexander H. Hill Richards, 1930. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 503404173 From the guide to the History of Alexander H. Hill Richards, 1930, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Jens Jensen was one of America's most visionary prairie school landscape architects. Born in 1860 in Denmark, Jensen emigrated to the United States in 1884, settling in Chicago, where he was hired a...

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...

Lincoln Highway Association

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Association was formed in 1913 by Carl G. Fisher (President of the Prest-O-Lite Co., founder of the Indianapolis Speedway), along with Frank A. Seiberling (President of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co.) and Henry B. Joy (President of Packard Motor Co.), in Indianapolis, Indiana, and later, Detroit, Michigan. The organization was made up of representatives from the automobile, tire, and cement industries, with the goal of planning, funding, constructing, and promoting the first transcontinental highw...

Fisher, Carl G. (Carl Graham), 1874-1939

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Real estate developer and entrepreneur. From the description of Papers, 1896-1958 (bulk 1914-1939). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70951368 Entrepreneur and real estate developer, of Miami Beach, Fla. From the description of Papers, 1896-1958. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70945465 ...