That's right, the Hagley Digital Archive is back up and the Hagley Vault is back on duty!
This beauty of an image is the cover to the pamphlet promoting a 1950 model Buick, and which advertises the aesthetic and practical features of the model's glass components.
The pamphlet is part of Hagley Library's collection of Z. Taylor Vinson collection of transportation ephemera (Accession 20100108.ZTV). For over sixty years, Zachary Taylor Vinson (1933-2009), a senior lawyer with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 1993-1995 president of the Society of Automotive Historians, and 1995-2009 editor of Automotive History Review amassed a large and comprehensive collection of printed material documenting on the history transportation, particularly automobiles.
Our Digital Archive offers a small selection of materials from the Vinson collection documenting the history of the automobile and transportation. Click here to view them online. The Library also offers Collecting Paper Cars: Z. Taylor Vinson's Collection of Automobile Advertising, a digital exhibit that explores Vinson’s work as a collector and the remarkable collection he dedicated his life to building.