Matheson Automobile Company photographs

About this collection

    The Matheson Automobile Company photographs (Accession 1989.327) collection includes 135 images dating largely from 1901 to 1912 from the Matheson Automobile Company, a small automaker headquartered out of Holyoke, Massachusetts and later Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania.
    Matheson automobiles were particularly popular for the power they provided, winning trophies in numerous hill climb competitions in the first decade of the twentieth century. The company's hand-built and custom-made cars were eventually pushed out of the market by smaller, cheaper, more mass-produced vehicles. The images in the collection depict automobile races, a Matheson European tour, and Matheson automobiles being manufactured and in use.
    The images in this collection were loaned for copy to Hagley Museum and Library in 1989; they were scanned from copies of originals on 4x5 prints.
    Image: H.N. Harding at wheel during 1907 Giant's Despair Hillclimb. Click here to view in the collection.

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