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Photograph Collection


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General Photograph Collection
NAHC's largest photograph collection of more than 250,000 images traces most vehicles from their beginnings. Other photographs include events, tours, factories, individuals, and races. Click here to browse the digital photographs of Detroit Automotive Factories.

Nathan Lazarnick Collection
More than 27,000 photographs of events, races, tours, and vehicles in American life during the first quarter of the twentieth century. Click here to see 2,000 digital images of the 1909 Glidden Tour from Detroit to Kansas City, Mo.

Northmore-McGuire Transparency Collection
Over 5,000 color transparencies from the renowned automotive photographers James Northmore and E.E. "Mickey" McGuire, who founded Boulevard Photographic.

Packard Motor Car Photograph Collection
Approximately 13,000 images of Packard cars, trucks, aircrafts, component parts, factories, buildings, and events. Nearly 3,000 of these images documenting Packard models can be seen on The Making of Modern Michigan web site.

To order photographs click here for Special Collections Reproduction Premission Form.

 

 

 

 

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