Pictorial history of the Mercury car – Historic Print
![Pictorial history of the Mercury car, [1955(?)] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/85/85ea08e7ddef-L.webp)
(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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Pictorial history of the Mercury car
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This montage gathers several views into one sheet to tell the story of the Mercury, the mid-priced Ford Motor Company line introduced in 1938 to sit between Ford and Lincoln. Its subject headings point to automobile manufacturing in St. Louis, Missouri, and Metuchen, New Jersey, during the 1950s, when the postwar auto industry was growing quickly. Company-issued compilations like this were often used for publicity and internal records, so the arrangement shows how Ford wanted its product presented. The date is estimated, so it is best read as a mid-1950s view of that corporate perspective.
| Created / published | [1955(?)] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Montages 1950-1960.Photographic prints 1950-1960. |
| Notes | Photograph from the Ford Motor Company. |
| Subjects | Automobile industry--Missouri--Saint Louis--1950-1960. Automobile industry--New Jersey--Metuchen--1950-1960. Automobiles--American--1930-1960. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,286 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-194899 |
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