About this collection

For over sixty years, Zachary Taylor Vinson (1933-2009) amassed a large and comprehensive collection of printed material documenting on the history transportation, particularly automobiles.

The Oral history interviews on Z. Taylor Vinson (Accession 2013.265) collection is the result of an oral history project initiated to provide supplementary material for Hagley’s 2015 exhibit, 'Driving Desire', which features items from the Z. Taylor Vinson collection of transportation ephemera (Accession 20100108.ZTV) and Taylor Vinson collection of transportation lithographs (Accession 2010.203). The three interviewees, Rick Shnitzler, Fred Simeone, and Yann Saunders, all were personal acquaintances of Z. Taylor Vinson as well as highly involved in either collecting or dealing auto ephemera and/or automobiles.

For more information, see 'Collecting Paper Cars: Z. Taylor Vinson's Collection of Automobile Ephemera', a digital exhibit developed as part of the 'Driving Desire' exhibit .

Image: Ford Thunderbird Catalog, 1955. Click here to view in the digital exhibit.