A while back, Dinosaurs and Robots (the Fifties nostalgia-historico kitsch blog from Mister Jalopy and Mad Professor) showed a couple of photos from the Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection at Indiana U. They (the Indiana University Archives) are in mid-digitization of 14,400 color Kodachrome slides shot from September 3, 1938, to April 20, 1969, and they've barely touched another five cubic feet of B&W negatives (probably 15,000 more photos) from 1876 through 1941.

What we saw was intriguing, and we've arranged with Bradley D. Cook, Curator of Photographs for the University, to publish a series from the Collection. Have fun, and enjoy our little trip through Cushman's Cars in Kodachrome, starting with Calle Campillo in Nogales, Sonora, January 11, 1952, and its Model A.

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