Ebook: Early Automobiles: a History in Advertising Line Art, 1890-1930

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; A Short History of the Methods of Printed Illustration, by Eric Edelman; Introduction, by Jim Harter; Early Automobiles: A History in Advertising Line Art, 1890-1930; Steam Carriage Ancestors; Early Developments in Gas Propulsion and Motor Carriages; Early Development of Electric Vehicles; America's First Successful Motor Carriage; Steam Revisited; Fin De Siecle; Viva Le France; The New Century and General Developments; Improvements in Tires and Roads; The Era of the Electric Car; The Electric Cab Venture and the Seldon Patent.;Image archivist and transportation historian Jim Harter follows his work, Early Farm Tractors, with an even larger collection of images from advertising line art from 1880 to 1930, this time focused on Early Automobiles. Nearly 250 entrancing illustrations -- many suitable for framing -- are gems of the art of commercial engraving. Harter provides a very substantial, detailed history of the development of the ""horseless carriage"" into the brands famous from the early 20th century -- racers like Stutz, Dusenberg, Stanley, as well as those that became household names like Oldsmobile, Ford, Chr.