Sale 2436 Lot 274

(GENERAL MOTORS EMPLOYEES) An album entitled A Ride in a Chevrolet with 174 photographs of esteemed General Motors employees. With photographs showing a vast array of GM employees from engineers and salesmen to the head of the special problems section. Nearly all viewed posing outside the company's headquarters in Detroit, Michigan, mostly in the same location, but a few posed by cars, and elsewhere. Nearly all the men are smartly dressed in 3-piece suits, with the exception of a few mechanics. Silver prints, the images each measuring 4½x2¼ inches (11.4x5.7 cm.), mounted 3 to a page with corners, recto only, each with notations beneath, in ink, identifying the employee, their job title, the date photographed, and their primary location; some with later notations in pencil, identifying later employments, retirement, and death dates. Oblong small folio, brown leatherette 3-ring binder, with the debossed title and Chevrolet logo. 1931-33

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Deemed a "pictorial review of executives and engineers who have materially aided in bringing General Motors products to their recognized heights of quality," the album, compiled by Harry Collins (photographed on p. 1), was intended as an "aid in recalling to memory, men whom time and distance have separated."