Gems from the Library

Did you know that West Virginia once produced a luxury car that was five to six times more expensive than a comparable Ford of the same era?

This is one of the most successful advertisements in the history of advertising and represented an entirely new way to approach marketing the automobile.

For a short period during the 1920s, the most prestigious German automotive manufacturers created advertisements similar in style to that of Warhol, decades before the artist would hit the scene.

Our library collection contains two well-produced brochure which appear to be selling a car, but were more likely an early example of a designer conducting market research.