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| Advertisement | Pope-Toledo Automobiles (1906) |
| Company/Advertising Agency | Pope Motor Car Company |
| Publication Source | The week-end, Vol 1 (23), p. 14 |
| Publisher | Every Saturday Publishing Company |
| Publisher Location | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Publication Date | 1906
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| Advertisement Text | Pope-Toledo 40 H.P. Seating 7 people comfortably for $3,650, F.O.B. Seattle. This car is acknowledged to be the finest in appearance and the leader in workmanship and material. Do not let any of our competitors persuade you that this car is built too light...Oldsmobile Model S Touring Car, 26-28 H.P. Comfortably seating 5 people for $2,400...Oldsmobile Runabout Model B 7 H.P., Price F.O.B. Seattle $750...Puget Sound Auto Co. |
| Contextual Notes | In 1877, Colonel Albert Pope started the Pope Manufacturing Company. After a few decades of reaping profits from bicycle sales, Pope turned his attention to the production of automobiles. The Pope-Toledo model was sold from 1903 to 1909.
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| Category | Automobiles, carriages and wagons
Cost and standard of living
Transportation and communication |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Automobiles; Automobile dealerships--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Geographic Coverage | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
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| Digital Collection | Early Advertising |
| Digital ID Number | ADV0273 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Pacific Northwest Collection. 979.743 WE |
| Object Type | Advertisement |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from text at 200-400 dpi, saved in TIFF format, enhanced and resized using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm software's JPEG2000 Extension. 2008 |
