Work (Stuart A.) collection of material about automobile history, 1900-1967.

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Summary

Title:
Stuart A. Work collection of material about automobile history,
Dates:
1900-1967.
Creators:
Work, Stuart A.
Abstract:
Stuart A. Work collected automobile literature while delivering cars for his father's auto agency and garage. The collection consists of automobile and racing magazines, auto show brochures, promotional booklets, technical manuals, books, clippings, catalogues, maps, time tables, and ephemera.
Extent:
47 boxes (23.5 linear ft.) 3 oversize boxes
Language:
English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Stuart A. Work Collection of Material about Automobile History (Collection 1001). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Background

Scope and content:

Collection consists of automobile and racing magazines, auto show brochures, promotional booklets, technical manuals, books, clippings, catalogues, maps, time tables, and ephemera collected by Stuart A. Work. Among the magazines in the collection are American automobile digest, Autocar messenger, Chalmers clubman, Horseless age, Motor, Pierce-Arrow news, and Saxon days. Book titles in the collection include the following: The Studebaker book of prominent buyers (1911), Barney Oldfield's book for the motorist (1919), Keeping up with Lizzie (1911), What every woman should know about an automobile (1932), and Smash hits of the year: book of street and highway accident data (1940).

Biographical / historical:

Work's interest in automobiles started early in his life, when he delivered cars from San Francisco to Pacific Grove to his father's auto agency and garage. He collected automobile manuals, magazines, auto show brochures, and books.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Stuart A. Work, 1968.
Arrangement:

Arranged in the following series:

  1. Magazines.
  2. Racing magazines and programs.
  3. Auto shows.
  4. Catalogues.
  5. Books.
  6. Map books and time tables.
  7. Miscellaneous.

Physical location:
Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Processed by Stuart A. Work; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé
Date Prepared:
© 2003
Date Encoded:
Machine-readable finding aid derived from typescript by rekeying, August 2003 . Frontmatter gathered from MARC record. Supplementary encoding and revision supplied by Caroline Cubé.

Access and use

Restrictions:

COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.

Terms of access:

Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Stuart A. Work Collection of Material about Automobile History (Collection 1001). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Location of this collection:
A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
Contact:
(310) 825-4988
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