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Title: Stuart A. Work collection of material about automobile history,
Date (inclusive): 1900-1967.
Collection number: 1001
Creator:
Work, Stuart A.
Extent: 47 boxes (23.5 linear ft.)
3 oversize boxes
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
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.
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.
Language:
English.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
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.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Stuart A. Work, 1968.
[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.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
3649284
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.
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).
Arranged in the following series:
- Magazines.
- Racing magazines and programs.
- Auto shows.
- Catalogues.
- Books.
- Map books and time tables.
- Miscellaneous.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Work, Stuart A.
Automobile industry and trade--United States--Archival resources.