Man and Woman in Curved-Dash Oldsmobile, 1901
THF120802 / Man and Woman in Curved-Dash Oldsmobile, 1901
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Artifact Overview
While other carmakers concentrated on large, high-priced automobiles, Ransom E. Olds introduced his simple little Curved Dash Oldsmobile in 1901 and sold it for a relatively inexpensive $650. Olds was among the first to realize the potential in an affordable automobile for the masses, and his Curved Dash runabout put car ownership within the means of the middle class.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
1901
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
84.1.1671.1
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 6.25 in
Width: 7.75 in
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Detroit contractor Albert Albrecht posed in a 1902 Oldsmobile circa 1920. Twenty years after its debut, the Curved Dash Olds was an antique with its tiller steering, chain drive and 4.5-horsepower engine hopelessly out of date. But the affordable Curved Dash had pointed toward a day when automobile ownership would be commonplace -- a day that had arrived by 1920.