Ad: Peerless Motor Car Co., 'Peerless' 1927
From the Collection of Roland Marchand
Ad, Peerless Motor Car Co. "Peerless." A couple drive in their Peerless down a mountain road toward a small town with a church steeple and an ocean in the distance; huge clouds cover most of the sky. Peerless is defunct.
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11.5 - Major political, social, economic, technological, and cultural developments of the 1920s.
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US Era 7 - The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
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Saturday Evening Post, c. 1927.
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Alan Taylor Andres Resendez Benjamin Lawrance Cynthia Brantley Don Price Joan Cadden Karen Halttunen Lisa Materson Louis Warren Roland Marchand William Hagen
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