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(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 4
1
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2
x2
1
/
4
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 pg. 1), was intended as an “aid in recalling to memory, men whom time and
distance have separated.”