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Transportation 064 - Automobile 1910s - Love It

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Title:Early automobile photograph

Subject:Ohio Economy--Science and Technology

Automobiles--Ohio--History

Photographers--Ohio

Upper Sandusky (Ohio)

Cultural Ohio--Art and Artists

Time Period: 1910s

Place: Upper Sandusky (Ohio)

Wyandot County (Ohio)

Description:An unidentified young man sitting in a homemade, 2-cylinder automobile.

The name "Havoline" appears twice on the car, referring to a company that still produces automotive maintenance products. Photograph by Harry Evan Kinley (1882-1969), a native of Upper Sandusky. Kinley was active in local events and organizations, and spent his professional career as a clerk at his father's department store, and later as a travelling salesman for the Marion Paper & Supply Company (1934-1962). He was also an avid lifelong photographer, and the bulk of the Harry Kinley Collection is comprised of glass plate negatives documenting the Kinley family, the city of Upper Sandusky and Wyandot County and surrounding areas.

Creator: Harry Kinley (Photographer)

Date of Original:ca. 1910

Collection:Harry Kinley Collection

Submitting Institution:Ohio History Connection

Date created2011-08-10

Date modified2015-10-06

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