First General Motors car -- First car to be produced after General Motors was formed in 1908 was this 1908 Cadillac ... – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: First General Motors car -- First car to be produced after General Motors was formed in 1908 was this 1908 Cadillac ..., preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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First General Motors car -- First car to be produced after General Motors was formed in 1908 was this 1908 Cadillac ...
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The record presents this 1908 Cadillac as the first car produced after General Motors was incorporated that year, a claim the company's public relations department promoted in the 1950s. The picture is a photograph of a drawing rather than of the automobile itself, so it reflects how GM chose to portray its origins nearly half a century later. William C. Durant assembled the company in 1908 around Buick, and Cadillac joined soon after. Corporate histories like this one helped shape the story of an industry that was still young in the early 1900s.
| Created / published | 1955 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1950-1960. |
| Notes | Photograph of drawing(?). |
| Subjects | General Motors Corporation--Products--1950-1960. General Motors Corporation--Public relations--1950-1960. Automobile industry--1900-1910. Automobiles--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,263 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-194210 |
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