Bibliography: Women Automotive Designers

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Women Automotive Designers Bibliography

This bibliography was compiled by staff of the Benson Ford Research Center’s Archives and Library Department based on materials in our collections. If you have questions about these resources, please use our Submit a Question feature. If you are interested in duplication, please see our Duplication Resources FAQ.

Archival

  • Acc. 1751 Suzanne Vanderbilt Papers
    • Contains material relating to product planning, reports, and projects Vanderbilt supervised in the General Motors Design Center, 1958-1986
       
  • Acc. 88.1417.0 Collection on George Walker and the Ford Motor Company Styling Office
    • Speech transcripts, press releases, and photographs. Much relates to the Fashion Trends Press preview held by Ford Motor Company at the Ford Styling Center in Dearborn on February 27,1958. Sally Eaton of the Ford Styling Studio, Vanne Shelley of the Edsel Styling Studio, Mary Jean Tumpane of the Lincoln Styling Studio, Helen Vincent of the Advanced Styling Studio, and Lillian Wolock of the Mercury Styling Studio are all referenced. A transcript of the speech given by Virginia Van Brunt, Fashion Director at J. Walter Thompson Company, is included.
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  • Acc. 536 Public Relations Research Library Press Releases
    • box 28 Design, Women’s Influence, 1952
    • box 113 Women’s Influences
      • General
      • Upholstery
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  • Acc. 1741 Virgil M Exner Papers
    • box 1 folder 14 90.1.1741.21 (photograph of Virgil M. Exner and Raymond Loewy with Clay Modelers at Work, Studebaker Corporation, 1946)
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  • Acc. 189 Photographs for the Company Series
    • box 64 
      • 64.167.189.P.20320 (Ford designer, Leota Carroll)
      • 64.167.189.P.20321 (Ford designer, Leota Carroll)
      • 64.167.189.P.20322 (Ford designer, Leota Carroll)
      • 64.167.189.P.20322.A (Ford designer, Leota Carroll)
      • 64.167.189.P.20339 (Ford designer, Doris Dickason)
      • 64.167.189.P.20340 (Ford designer, Doris Dickason)
      • box 65 64.167.189.P.20572 (Ford designer, Leota Carroll)
    • box 66
      • 64.167.189.P.20911 (Ford designer, Leota Carroll)
      • 64.167.189.P.20912 (Ford designer, Leota Carroll)
      • 64.167.189.P.20913 (Ford designer, Leota Carroll)
      • 64.167.189.P.20860 (Ford designer, Leota Carroll)
      • 64.167.189.P.20888 (Ford designer, Leota Carroll)
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  • Acc. 833 General Photographs Series
    • box 67 Folder 162c Automobiles-Ford-1942, 1946
      • 64.167.833.P.81816.30 (Ford designer, Leota Carroll)
      • 64.167.833.P.81816.22 (Ford designer, Leota Carroll)
      • 64.167.833.P.81816.23 (Ford designer, Leota Carroll)
    • box 67 Folder 164A Ford Automobiles- Ford-1946-1948
      • 64.167.833.P.83116 (Ford designer, Leota Carroll)
      • 64.167.833.P.83116.1 (Ford designer, Leota Carroll)
      • 64.167.833.P.83116.2 (Ford designer, Leota Carroll)
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  • UV-386 Unprocessed Visual Materials
    • 00.1800.1 "Woman Automotive Designer at Drafting Table, circa 1920
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  • Acc. 1660 Photographic Vertical File
    • box 141 General Motors-Engineers & Designers-General (84.1.1660.828, GM designer, Peggy Sauer)

Periodicals

Oral Histories

  • 91.1.1673.83 Audrey Moore Hodges
  • 91.1.1673.39 Joseph and Betty Thatcher Oros
  • 91.1.1673.36 Suzanne E. Vanderbilt
  • 91.1.1673.34 Willemina (Mimi) J. Vandermolen

Vertical File

  • Automobile Industry and Trade / Automobiles / Design and Construction / Women Designers
  • Automobile Industry and Trade / Automobiles / Women

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