87-Year-old Detroit Library Reopens After Brush with Disaster
From the Detroit Free Press
Boasting everything from unique photos of the likes of Henry Ford, Louis Chevrolet and Amelia Earhart to color swatches for classic car restoration and documents from Detroit’s role in winning World War II, the National Automotive History Collection is back in business.
More than a year after a broken water pipe threatened the irreplaceable NAHC, historians, enthusiasts, authors and the public again have access to the stately 87-year-old library in the shadow of the Quicken Loans building downtown.
The Detroit Public Library began collecting automotive materials in 1896, when it purchased “Notes on Motor Carriages,” a 34-page book by John Henry Knight, who had built one of England’s first cars, a two-seat three-wheeler. Subtitled “With Hints for Purchasers and Users,” it’s still in the collection.
The oldest acquisition is the October 1895 issue of The Motocycle.
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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