Roadside America : the automobile in design and culture / edited by Jan Jennings.

Title & Author:

Roadside America : the automobile in design and culture / edited by Jan Jennings.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Ames, Iowa : Published by Iowa State University Press for the, 1990.

Description:

x, 220 pages : illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm

Notes:
Selected papers from the 1988 SCA conference held in Dearborn, Mich., and co-sponsored by the Henry Ford Museum.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The automobile / Folke T. Kihlstedt -- Transportation imagery and streamlined moderne architecture / Robert M. Craig -- Technology and geography in the emergence of the American automobile industry, 1895-1915 / Peter J. Hugill -- Coils of the commercial serpent / Gerald T. Bloomfield -- The snapshot, the automobile, and the Americans / James E. Paster -- The motorization of library and related services in rural America, 1912-28 / Michael L. Berger -- On the road to adventure / David K. Vaughan -- Crossroads / E.L. Widmer -- Housing the automobile / Jan Jennings -- A story of prefabrication / Carol Ahlgren and Frank Edgerton Martin.
(Cont.) -- The motel in builder's literature and architectural publications / Mary Anne Beecher -- Frank Redford's Wigwam Village chain / Keith A. Sculle -- Of motorcars and movies / Maggie Valentine -- The death of the street / Richard Ingersoll -- Chicago architects and the automobile, 1906- 26 / R. Stephen Sennott -- Roadside blight and the reform of commercial architecture / Daniel M. Bluestone -- Fifty years of parkway construction in and around the nations' capital / Sara Amy Leach -- Mapping route 66 / Arthur Krim.

ISBN:

0813801311 (alk. paper)
9780813801315

Subject:

Automobiles Social aspects United States History Congresses.
Automobiles Design and construction Social aspects United States History Congresses.
Automobiles Aspect social États-Unis Histoire Congrès.
Automobiles Conception et construction Aspect social États-Unis Histoire Congrès.
Automobiles Social aspects
Kraftfahrzeug
Kultur
Kongress
Design
United States
USA
Cars Sociology

Form/genre:

Kongress Dearborn (Mich.) 1988.
Conference papers and proceedings
History

Added entries:

Jennings, Jan, 1946-
Society for Commercial Archeology (U.S.)
Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 57424
Call No.: ID:90-B5805
Status: Available

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