View of Alvan Macauley, standing in front of Rollston Cabriolet car at auto show. Stamped on back: "N. Lazarnick, commercial photographers, makers of industrial motion pictures, 1440 B'way (at 40th St.), N.Y., Tel. Chickering 1717. 5005 Euclid Ave., Cleve., Randolph 7852." Handwritten on back: "Biography--Macauley, Alvan. Alvan Macauley, president of Packard Motor Car Company of New York, reading [undecipherable] letter in front of Rollston Cabriolet at auto show."
Item #: na004060
Photo courtesy of the Detroit Public Library, National Automotive History Collection and used with permission.
View of Alvan Macauley, driving a car. Handwritten on back: "Biography--Macauley, Alvan. Alvin Macauley, gen. mgr. & vice-president of Packard Motor Car Co. Aug/9/1913."
Item #: na004059
Photo courtesy of the Detroit Public Library, National Automotive History Collection and used with permission.
View of musicians from Packard band walking on path at Soo Locks during 1913 summer meeting of the S.A.E. Two men, walking alongside musicians, hold noisemakers; ferry in background. Stamped on back: "Spooner & Wells, Inc., photographers, 1231 Woodward Ave., Detroit, Mich., telephone North 1745." Handwritten on back: "The Packard band leading the processon at the Soo, S.A.E. trip, 1913. Events--Society of Automotive Engineers trip."
Item #: na031336
Photo courtesy of the Detroit Public Library, National Automotive History Collection and used with permission.
View of Alvan Macauley and aviator Charles Lindbergh posing with a 9 cylinder Packard airplane at Selfridge Field. Handwritten on back: "Packard aircraft, 9 cyl., diesel, 1930. Alvan Macauley with Charles A. Lindbergh at Selfridge Field (Joy Field)."
Item #: na051720
Photo courtesy of the Detroit Public Library, National Automotive History Collection and used with permission.
View of Packard band on deck of steamship City of Detroit III at Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan during 1913 summer meeting of the S.A.E. Stamped on back: "Spooner & Wells, Inc., photographers, 1231 Woodward Ave., Detroit, Mich., telephone North 1745." Handwritten on back: "The Packard band playing on boat and crowd on upper deck, S.A.E. trip, 1913. Events--Society of Automotive Engineers trip."
Item #: na031350
Photo courtesy of the Detroit Public Library, National Automotive History Collection and used with permission.
View of Herbert Middledorf and unidentified woman worker posing with "American ends with I can. Work to win!" sign. Label on back: "Packard News Service. For release May 16 or later. Machine operator's slogan speeds war engine output. Herbert Middledorf, machine operator producing parts for the Packard PT-boat engine pictured here, noticed the way the word "American" ends and suggested this inspiring slogan to help boost production of war engines. That all the Middledorfs practice what the father praches is proven by the family record. Two sons, William and James, are flying with the Army Air Corps, and the typically American mother (right) is also a Packard war worker. She inspects small parts for Packard-built Rolls-Royce aircraft engines." Handwritten on back: "Women workers."
Item #: na040308
Photo courtesy of the Detroit Public Library, National Automotive History Collection and used with permission.
View of Co-ordinator Mahala Milligan counseling screw machine operator Ruby Townsend at the Packard Motor Car Company. Label on back: "Serving as 'roving centers' as they travel the mile long Packard plant twenty-four hours a day, Packard Co-ordinators extend counseling service to women employees on the job. Here Co-ordinator Mahala Milligan (left) tells screw machine operator Ruby Townsend (right) that arrangements have been completed for placing Mrs. Townsend's pre-school age youngster in one of the neighborhood nurseries. Packard's Co-ordinators have assisted hundreds of working mothers solve similar child problems." Handwritten on back: "Women workers."
Item #: na040286
Photo courtesy of the Detroit Public Library, National Automotive History Collection and used with permission.