Precious Metal magazine, March 2019, Volume 36, No. 1

MARCH 2019

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SPECIAL SYMPOSIUM EDITION

CONTENTS SPECIAL SECTION – HISTORY SYMPOSIUM 2019 AN NUAL HI STORY SY M P OSI U M 1900-1910: TYCOONS & TRAILBLAZERS APRIL 24, 25 AND 27

ARTICLES BY PRESENTERS, READING RECOMMENDATIONS, BIOGRAPHIES

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An Unlikely Trust: Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Improbable Partnership That Remade American Business

By Gerard Helferich The Trans-Siberian Railroad and the Settlement of Russia’s “Wild East”

By Steven G. Marks, Ph.D.

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Ida M. Tarbell

By Bob Kochersberger, Ph.D.

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Gifford Pinchot and the National Conservation Movement

By Peter A. Kopp, Ph.D.

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Afro-West Indian Laborers on the Panama Canal

by W. Frank Robinson, Ph.D.

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Reformers and Risk-Takers: The Battle for Reno’s Soul

By Alicia Barber, Ph.D.

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The Great Auto Race New York to Paris 1908 & 2018

By Jeff Mahl

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The Artist: Pablo Picasso

By Doug A. Mishler, Ph.D.

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Origins of the American Automobile Industry

By William N. Cathey, Ph.D.

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John Sparks: A Life of Adventure

By Michael E. Fischer, DDS

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Compare and Contrast the 1903 Ford Model A and the 1909 Ford Model T The Transformation of the Automobile Industry to Mass Production

By Jay Hubbard

COVER IMAGE Trans-Siberian Railroad

by Bob Cinkel

DEPARTMENTS

IN THIS ISSUE

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FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

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MUSEUM ON THE MOVE

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VOLUNTEER NEWS

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GREAT MUSEUM ADVENTURE! NEW STEM FIELD TRIP

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30 YEARS AGO

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2018 ANNUAL GIVING CAMPAIGN

THANKS A MILLION

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS

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MUSEUM STORE

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NEW MEMBERS

EDITOR Jackie L. Frady PRINTING SERVICES A. Carlisle GRAPHIC DESIGN Grace Lark Design Precious Metal is a benefit to members and is published by the National Automobile Museum The Harrah Collection 10 South Lake Street Reno, NV 89501-1558 (775) 333-9300 Fax (775) 333-9309 www.automuseum.org info@automuseum.org Materials in this publication cannot be reproduced or utilized without written permission of the National Automobile Museum (The Harrah Collection).

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JACKIE L. FRADY

FR O M TH E E X E C U TI V E DI RE CTOR T HIRTY YE AR S What an exciting year – we will be celebrating the Museum’s 30th Anniversary on November 7, 2019, with our members and supporters. To read what was happening with construction of the new museum, as well as with business and operations in early 1989, see the article, Thirty Years Ago, on page 22.

During that time, a temporary museum site was in operation in Sparks at the former location of Harrah’s Automobile Collection, construction of a new museum was underway, planning for the future was proceeding, and a feasibility study was generating great optimism.

Fast forward to today where 30 years have brought tremendous challenges, significant recognition, remarkable accomplishments and many rewarding experiences. This magazine showcases a perfect example of one of these many experiences in the article, Great Museum Adventure! A successful STEM Field Trip program was recently developed and offered to more than 20 elementary school classrooms from low income, high need schools in the Washoe County School District. Several teachers expressed sincere gratitude as this would be the only field trip for their classroom this school year, because of stipends the Museum offered to help with transportation and admission costs. We are extremely thankful for a generous grant from the Thelma B. & Thomas P. Hart Foundation, which made this program possible.

Since 1989, the Museum has offered many programs and endless changing exhibits. Our history symposiums that began in 1996 remain one of our most relevant and valuable. They have evolved significantly, from depth of content to the assemblage of notable regional and national speakers. We are grateful and proud that all have been funded by Nevada Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities; and all have been approved by the Nevada Department of Education for teachers to earn in-service credit.

Our audiences are a mixture of adults and teachers dedicated to lifelong learning. This issue features our 2019 symposium, including the agenda, articles by

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each speaker with their bio, and registration form.

We hope you are joining us for our 2019 symposium, 1900-1910: Tycoons & Trailblazers.

Even this publication has undergone many transformations over 30 years. The first newsletters were issued under the name, The William F. Harrah Automobile Foundation, with one each in 1985 and 1986. Two were written in 1987 from the William F. Harrah Automobile Museum. In August 1988, the “Precious Metal” newsletter debuted and eventually became the full-color magazine we know today.

We extend an enormous thank you to professional graphic designer Robert “Bob” Cinkel, who joined our team in 1995 and designed our publications through the June 2018 issue. Bob shared his talents and skills, and did a remarkable job with layout and design. He helped us reach an important goal, which was enhancing this membership benefit by transforming our newsletter into a magazine.

Over the years, Bob has produced countless graphic design projects from flyers and invitations to signs and exhibits. While the Precious Metal project recently moved to another designer, we are extremely pleased Bob remains on the Museum’s team as an in-house graphic designer. We express our sincere appreciation for generous grants from the Ranson and Norma Webster Foundation Fund at the Community Foundation of Western Nevada, which fund graphic design services.

As we approach the 30th Anniversary, we are forever grateful to the many people and organizations who have been on this journey for more than 30 years and to those who have joined us along the way.

Thank you for making this journey possible.

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ARTICLES BY SYMPOSIUM SPEAKERS, READING An Unlikely Trust: Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Improbable Partnership That Remade American Business

By Gerard Helferich

At the turn of the twentieth century, Theodore Roosevelt and J.P. Morgan were the two most powerful men in America, perhaps the world. As president, Roosevelt vastly expanded the authority of the federal government and shifted the balance of power from Congress to the executive branch. As the nation’s preeminent financier, Morgan presided over an elemental shift in American business, away from family-owned companies and toward huge public corporations such as U.S. Steel and AT&T. Overpowering figures and colossal personalities, Roosevelt and Morgan could easily have become sworn enemies.

And they have generally been depicted as battling titans, the ruthless trust builder versus the indomitable trustbuster.

In truth, each man was far more complex than this caricature suggests; their long association was also more complicated, and at times was even mutually beneficial.

An Unlikely Trust: Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Improbable Partnership That Remade American Business relates the uneasy but far-reaching collaboration between Theodore Roosevelt and J.P. Morgan. In its pages, we see how they worked together to defuse national emergencies such as the Great Coal Strike of 1902 and the financial panic of 1907, and we examine the role each man played in realizing the extraordinary promise of the Panama Canal. But more than the story of two historical titans, An Unlikely Trust is an account of the tangled, often self-serving relationship between business and government, beginning with the nineteenth-century doctrine of laissez-faire, through twentieth-century reforms, to the dismantling of the regulatory structure that is in process today. And it is an account of how, despite all that has changed over the past century, so much remains the same, including the myriad ways that big business controls the political process, the pervasive feeling that government is working for the special interests rather than for the people, and the growing divide between rich and poor. Not least of all, An Unlikely Trust is the story of how two citizens with vastly disparate philosophies and interests managed to come together for the good of the country.

RESOURCES RECOMMENDED BY GERARD HELFERICH Barbara Strouse, Morgan: American Financier, Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2014 Edmund Morris, Theodore Roosevelt:The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Rex, and Colonel Roosevelt, Trilogy, Random House, 2010 The Theodore Roosevelt Center website: theodorerooseveltcenter.org

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BIOGRAPHY Gerard Helferich

In addition to An Unlikely Trust, Gerard Helferich is the author of four critically acclaimed works of nonfiction--Theodore Roosevelt and the Assassin: Madness, Vengeance, and the Campaign of 1912, which was a New York Times e-book bestseller; High Cotton: Four Seasons in the Mississippi Delta, which won the Authors Award for nonfiction from the Mississippi Library Association; Stone of Kings: In Search of the Lost Jade of the Maya, which was selected by the American Booksellers Association as an Indie Next title; and Humboldt’s Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Latin American Journey That Changed the Way We See the World, which was a Discover magazine Science Bestseller.

A member of the National Book Critics Circle, he publishes reviews in the Wall Street Journal. For sixteen years he was on the faculty of the Columbia Publishing Course at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in New York. Before turning to writing in 2002, he was an editor and publisher for twenty-five years at companies such as Doubleday, Simon & Schuster, and John Wiley & Sons. For more about him and his work, please visit his website, www.gerardhelferich.com.

The Trans-Siberian Railroad and the Settlement of Russia’s “Wild East”

By Steven G. Marks, Ph.D.

The Trans-Siberian Railroad is the longest railroad in the world. More expensive than the construction of the Panama or Suez canals, it was the costliest infrastructure project undertaken in modern history up to its time. Built between 1891 and 1916 in the reigns of Tsars Alexander III and Nicholas II, it was accompanied by an expansive state-led colonization effort which settled more than five million peasant migrants in Russia’s “Wild East.” This was comparable to the westward movement in the United States: in Siberia and the Russian Far East, as in the North American West, white settlers moved into territories that were home to indigenous peoples, marginalized them, and quickly integrated the land into international commodities markets.

Twice the size of the US or Canada, Russia was and is the biggest country in the world. Except in the Arctic, its borders lack natural boundaries and for centuries have been subject to pressures from neighboring empires and at times invaded by other great powers.

Those geopolitical considerations provided one of the rationales for the construction of the Trans-Siberian, as an effort to move troops to the distant reaches of the

R E C O M M E N D AT I O N S , A N D T H E I R B I O G R A P H I E S empire and strengthen Russian control over the territory through economic development. The other motive for its construction was the rising agitation of dissident movements throughout Siberia with radical or separatist agendas. The thought process was that the railroad and related peasant colonization would consolidate the state’s presence in the face of these domestic threats. Unfortunately, the result was the opposite of what the government intended. Railroad construction brought into existence a Siberian working class, which was impoverished, volatile, and easily radicalized. Moreover, as the railroad directly threatened Tokyo’s imperialist ambitions in China and Korea, it prompted the RussoJapanese War (1904-1905), a humiliating defeat for the Russians at the hands of an Asian power. This helped spark the Russian Revolution of 1905, which the tsarist regime barely survived.

The endemic corruption which plagued the building and administration of the Trans-Siberian would be recognizable in today’s Russia. In fact, the potential geopolitical threats from Western powers that led to its construction persist today, too, helping to explain some of the foreign policy thrusts of the Russian government under its president, Vladimir Putin. My presentation at the National Automobile Museum will explore the history of the Trans-Siberian as well as convey what it tells us about today’s Russia.

RESOURCES RECOMMENDED BY STEVEN G. MARKS Fiona Hill and Clifford G. Gaddy, Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin, 2d. ed. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2015.

Steven G. Marks, Road to Power:The Trans-Siberian Railroad and the Colonization of Asian Russia, 1850-1917. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1991.

Christian Wolmar, To the Edge of the World: The Story of the Trans-Siberian Express, the World’s Greatest Railroad. NY: PublicAffairs, 2014.

BIOGRAPHY

Steven G. Marks, Ph.D. Steven G. Marks grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was an undergraduate at Miami University and a graduate student at Harvard University, where he received his PhD in History in 1988. In the late 1970s he worked summers as the substitute head of the wine cellar at the Hotel Kempinski in West Berlin. He has spent his entire academic career, more than thirty years, as a professor in the History Department at Clemson University, located in upstate South Carolina.

He teaches and writes about Russian history, European history, and world economic history. His first book, Road to Power (1991), was a history of the tsarist-era construction of the Trans-Siberian Railroad. His second, How Russia Shaped the Modern World (2003), was a history of the international impact and reception of Russian art, literature, and political ideas. His third and most recent, The Information Nexus (2016), is a global history of capitalism from the Renaissance to the present. Among other topics, he has also published articles on the history of the word “capitalism”; Russian money during World War I and the Revolution; and Spanish-Russian cultural ties. He is currently writing a history of Spanish wine.

Ida M. Tarbell

By Bob Kochersberger, Ph.D. When Ida Minerva Tarbell, daughter of an oilfield tank maker and middle-named for the Roman goddess of wisdom, arrived in northwestern Pennsylvania in 1857, no one could have imagined the indelible role she would play in journalism and the coverage of business as one of the crusading journalists labeled “muckrakers” by President Teddy Roosevelt.

She was the lone woman among the 40 “hostile and indifferent boys” in her class of 1880 at Allegheny College, in Meadville, PA., and studied widely, using a microscope and speaking on a rudimentary telephone.

Tarbell’s first journalism was on the staff of The Chautauquan magazine, where she hoped only to earn “pin money” but grew in professional stature before she spent three years in Paris, speaking French, studying French revolutionary women and supporting herself by her reporting and writing. During the Paris years Tarbell truly turned professional in the world of journalism, and became sensitive to social issues she later wrote about, such as factory safety and philanthropy.

Tarbell covered a wide range of topics from Paris for American newspapers, and her “syndicate” kept her afloat for three years of adventures in the Latin Quarter and elsewhere. But an encounter with magazine editor Samuel S. McClure, who looked her up in Paris after reading her dispatches, brought her back home.

At first Tarbell was the magazine’s principal biographer, and her writing Lincoln and Napoleon boosted circulation and helped her become, as McClure later wrote, “. . . the most generally famous woman in America.”

Tarbell was best known for her stunning series on the Standard Oil Company and its founder, John D. Rockefeller. She had broad firsthand knowledge of the oil regions, and as a college-educated woman had the intellectual firepower that such a monumental series—two years’ worth of articles—required.

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The series brought infamy down on Rockefeller, and “the Standard,” as it was called, soon was broken into pieces. Tarbell never said she felt pleasure at the demise of the company, but it is hard to imagine she did not.

She wrote in the autobiography that the reporting was “regarded as a legitimate piece of historical work. We were never apologists nor critics, only journalists intent on discovering what had gone into the making of the most perfect of all monopolies.”

Tarbell had two themes in her business and investigative reporting. The first was that business is important, can be profitable and is not inherently evil. The second was that business had certain obligations to its workers, with regard to their unmet human needs. She believed that good treatment of workers would lead to increased productivity and profit.

Tarbell also wrote favorably of women as managers, finding them as capable as men. She also sharply criticized unsafe work conditions, especially in American mines and in the garment-manufacturing sweatshops of New York City.

Tarbell’s lifetime of journalism made it possible for her readers to experience in painstaking detail some of the important but distant issues affecting their lives. And through her unmistakable fact-based approach, she still makes it possible for today’s readers to gain insight in the personalities, workplaces and issues of her time.

RESOURCES RECOMMENDED BY BOB KOCHERSBERGER Kathleen Brady, Ida Tarbell: Portrait of a Muckraker Mary Tomkins, Ida M.Tarbell Bob Kochersberger, More than a Muckraker: Ida Tarbell’s Lifetime in Journalism

Pelletier Library’s Special Collections, at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pa.: https://sites.allegheny.edu/lits/library/ special-collections/ida-m-tarbell-collection/ BIOGRAPHY

Bob Kochersberger, Ph.D. Bob Kochersberger was born in 1950 in Buffalo, N.Y., and once he discovered journalism—in the form of his high school newspaper—has been a writer, editor and teacher ever since.

His BA, MS and Ph.D. are all in journalism. He worked full-time for upstate New York newspapers throughout the 1970s and then went on to teach. He has been at N.C. State University in Raleigh since 1986.

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one the first intellectual historians of journalism. He has done research on Tarbell ever since.

Other academic interests have included overseas teaching, and he has been a Fulbright professor in Yugoslavia, Egypt, Slovenia, Thailand and Slovakia. Two fun facts are that Bob is a licensed pilot and was a contestant on “Jeopardy!”

Gifford Pinchot and the National Conservation Movement

By Peter A. Kopp, Ph.D.

In the opening years of the 1900s, the Theodore Roosevelt Administration enacted a series of policies that aimed to protect and preserve American land, water, and natural resources. The inspiration resided in part from the president’s own adoration for the open spaces of the American West. But, more explicitly, the efforts offered a response to unchecked expansionism in the previous century that witnessed erosion, polluted waters, denuded forests, and a decline of wildlife species from coast to coast.

At the center of the administration’s efforts to protect the environment stood Gifford Pinchot, one of Roosevelt’s closest friends and the first Chief Forester of the U.S. Forest Service. After training in Europe and having taken a position with the Division of Forestry in the 1890s, Pinchot became the face of a new environmental movement. Pinchot introduced to the nation the idea of conservationism, or the scientific management of public lands with the intent of protecting natural resources—such as timber—for future generations.

Despite the lack of confidence in these ideas by many of the country’s leaders, Congress created the United States Forest Service in 1905. The agency had a small budget and a limited number of foresters. But Pinchot’s passion and leadership proved out. While he was forced out of his position during the Taft Administration, Pinchot set in motion a successful plan for professional forestry and the continual expansion of national forest acreage in subsequent years.

The fundamentals of Pinchot’s conservation ethic also underpinned other legislation focused on the environment during this time period, including the Reclamation Act (that eventually created the Bureau of Reclamation) spearheaded by Nevada’s own Francis Newlands in 1902. At the heart of all of these policies was the notion of utilitarianism, or the desire to protect nature and natural resources “for the greatest good, for the greatest number, for the longest time.” Roosevelt and Pinchot also promoted early the idea of multiple use in the nation’s public lands, including the blending of grazing, recreation, and forestry in the nation’s new national forests.

RESOURCES RECOMMENDED BY PETER A. KOPP Egan, Timothy. The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America. Mariner Books, 2010.

Miller, Char. Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism. Island Press, 2004.

Miller, Char. Gifford Pinchot: Selected Writings. Penn State University Press, 2017.

BIOGRAPHY

Peter A. Kopp, Ph.D. Peter A. Kopp is an Associate Professor of History and the Director of the Public History Program at New Mexico State University. His research and teaching specialties reside in the environmental history of the North American West and the history of agriculture and food. Kopp is the author of Hoptopia: A World of Agriculture and Beer in Oregon’s Willamette Valley (University of California Press, 2016), winner of the American Historical Association’s Pacific Coast Branch Award for first time authors.

Currently, he is writing a biography of Fabián García (the “Father of New Mexico Chile”) and was recently awarded a faculty grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support this project. Kopp is also engaged in a variety of public history and museum endeavors, including his role as co-director of the Murals of Las Cruces Project (muralsoflascruces.com) that digitally preserves and showcases an ephemeral form of public art. He earned his Ph.D. in history from the University of Nevada, Reno in 2012.

Afro-West Indian Laborers on the Panama Canal

By W. Frank Robinson, Ph.D.

Most histories of the Panama Canal focus on the largerthan-life figures who helped bring the monumental project to completion such as President Theodore Roosevelt and the chief engineers John Stevens and George Washington Goethals. Of equal significance, but receiving far less attention, are the tens of thousands of workers from around the world whose labor made it all possible. AfroWest Indians, many from Jamaica and Barbados, played a particularly important role in building the canal and reshaping the map of the world. Caribbean migrations to Panama began in the early nineteenth century and increased during periods of railroad and canal construction.

Over 100,000 black West Indians permanently settled in Panama, becoming the largest immigrant group in this sparsely populated country. Afro-West Indians had to contend with outright racism from United States officials in the Canal Zone as well as more latent forms of nationalist

chauvinism from the Panamanians themselves. The struggles and experiences of West Indians in Panama represent an important chapter in Caribbean migrations.

For the community as a whole, the decades of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s marked a particularly turbulent period. Panamanian politicians aggressively introduced a defensive brand of Panamanian nationalism that severely restricted Afro-West Indian rights. Many Panamanians increasingly demanded that West Indians give up their culture and adopt that of Panama, while others called for the deportation of the large immigrant community, going so far as to support a constitution that snatched away citizenship from West Indians born in Panama.

Shortly after assuming power in 1940, President Arnulfo Arias rammed through the National Assembly legislation that rescinded the citizenship of Panama’s Afro-West Indian community and prohibited any further immigration.

The actions of President Arias reflected feelings, widely held on the isthmus, of resentment toward West Indians who were considered to be a foreign body resistant to assimilation. Afro-West Indian resistance to such racism and discrimination, taking various forms over the course of the twentieth century, marks a hugely significant chapter in the history of the isthmus.

RESOURCES RECOMMENDED BY W. FRANK ROBINSON Conniff, Michael L. Panama and the United States: The Forced Alliance, 2nd ed. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2001.

McCullough, David. The Path Between the Seas:The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978.

Parker, Matthew. Panama Fever: The Epic Story of the Building of the Panama Canal. New York: Anchor Books, 2009.

BIOGRAPHY

W. Frank Robinson, Ph.D. W. Frank Robinson is an Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.

He completed his undergraduate studies at the Johns Hopkins University and received his graduate degrees from the University of Florida and Auburn University with concentrations in African Area Studies and Latin American history. Specializing in Latin America and the Caribbean, his research focuses on twentieth century political and social movements, nationalism and populism, and migrations in the Caribbean. Grants and fellowships from the IIE Fulbright Program, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Defense Education Act Title VI have helped fund his studies, research, and writing. He is a contributing author of Populism in Latin America and is currently completing a manuscript that examines the dynamics of twentieth century Panamanian political history.

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Reformers and Risk-Takers: The Battle for Reno’s Soul

By Alicia Barber, Ph.D. As the twentieth century dawned, the small town of Reno, Nevada found itself a battleground between two contingents: those who desperately wanted their city to become known as a modern, progressive little metropolis, and those who favored doubling down on its frontier, anything-goes attitude. A lot was at stake. The Comstock Lode centered in nearby Virginia City had entered a serious decline in the 1880s, and the state was rapidly losing population, as thousands fled in search of more favorable prospects. As Nevada’s largest town and a junction on the transcontinental railroad, Reno seemed to hold the most potential for developing a stable, appealing cultural identity and economy not tied to the ups and downs of the mining industry.

The two sides lined up. On one side were the reformers, led by University of Nevada President Joseph Stubbs and an array of organizations and legislators bent on cleaning up what they perceived as Reno’s social ills. Their targets included excessive alcohol consumption, rampant gambling, a distressing number of drifters, and the ramshackle red light district near the banks of the Truckee River. Challenging them were saloon owners, prizefighting promoters, and advocates of laissez-faire capitalism, who argued that Reno could only flourish if businesses were allowed to operate unhindered by petty concerns for moral virtue.

The local struggle reflected dominant currents in the broader American landscape, as Progressive reform efforts across the country targeted moral and political corruption of all kinds. In the midst of this tumult, Reno’s residents worked steadily to modernize their city’s infrastructure, establishing power plants, an electric streetcar line, a public library, and free mail delivery. Midway through the decade, the arrival of a socialite from Pittsburgh intent on dissolving her marriage to one of the country’s wealthiest industrialists suddenly catapulted Reno into the national spotlight. The resulting attention, and the economic gold mine her visit foretold, set Reno on a course that neither the reformers nor the risk-takers had anticipated, making the first decade of the 20th century one of the most transformative in Reno’s history.

RESOURCES RECOMMENDED BY ALICIA BARBER Alicia Barber, Reno’s Big Gamble: Image and Reputation in the Biggest Little City (University Press of Kansas, 2008)

Reno Historical website (renohistorical.org) Illuminating Reno’s Divorce Industry website (renodivorcehistory.org)

BIOGRAPHY

Alicia Barber, Ph.D. Alicia Barber, Ph.D., is a professional historian and award-winning writer whose work focuses on the built environment and cultural history of Nevada and the American West. After earning a doctorate in American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin in 2003, she moved to Reno, where she taught at the University of Nevada, Reno for the next ten years, and directed the University of Nevada Oral History Program from 2009-2013. In July 2017, she debuted her regular history feature on KUNR 88.7 FM, “Time & Place with Alicia Barber,” which airs twice a month. She is the author of the book Reno’s Big Gamble: Image and Reputation in the Biggest Little City as well as multiple articles and chapters for both popular and scholarly publications, and the co-founder and editor of Reno Historical (renohistorical.org), a map-based smart phone app and website that describes historic sites throughout the city. Founder of the historical consulting firm Stories in Place, Dr. Barber collaborates frequently with government agencies, museums, artists, architects, and community groups on projects ranging from oral histories to historical exhibits. In 2014 she was honored with the Silver Pen Award from the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame.

The Great Auto Race New York to Paris 1908 & 2018

By Jeff Mahl

Few audiences have the opportunity to hear firsthand the experiences of an American race driver who changed the course of automotive history a century ago. Or to learn of a global test of machines and men in an event so incredible, it has never been duplicated in the 100+ years since.

Who would have guessed that a quiet mechanic from Buffalo, NY would win a race most felt would never succeed even as far as Chicago, much less Paris. All at a time in the early automotive era when “a motor car, after a woman, was considered the most fragile and capricious thing on earth”.

Based in fact, and richly illustrated with over 40 original photographs (many unpublished), Jeff Mahl brings to life the events of 1908 and the New York to Paris Great Automobile Race. Experience the Race, just as Jeff heard the recollections of his Great Grandfather, George N. Schuster, driver and chief mechanic of the winning American Thomas Flyer. It was an epic international event, matching the best in automotive technology of the world super powers, Germany, France, Italy, and the United States. There were few roads and most of the world’s population had never seen a motor car, or even an American.

The stirring events and human trials matched the wit, ingenuity, courage and pure will to achieve what had

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never been done before. With seemingly insurmountable obstacles, George Schuster was the first person to ever drive an automobile across the US in the winter time. He was the only American to make the 22,000+ mile distance from Times Square that cold morning February 12, and arrive triumphantly in Paris July 30, 1908 winning for the United States the legendary race. His record still stands over 100 years later.

The presentation includes glimpses into what really happened, with many stories never before published.

It shows the human side of the participants, as well as giving a true appreciation for the marvelous machines that propelled those daring men around the world. In October of 2010, George Schuster joined automotive legends including Ford, Andretti, Benz, Ferrari, Olds and Shelby with his Induction into the Automotive Hall of Fame. The Thomas Flyer was inducted into the National Historic Vehicle Register #12 on June 23, 2016.

Utilizing technology, Jeff brings a bold new dimension to the story also looking at 2018 New York to Paris which followed the original 1908 route from New York to San Francisco. This “Driving Adventure” highlights Great Gramp’s epic journey looking at the world after a century of technological progress, as well as what has remained the same in the human spirit.

You will also want to tour Gallery Four at the National Automobile Museum, where the legendary 1907 Thomas Flyer is featured! It looks just as it did when it crossed the finish line to victory in Paris.

RESOURCES RECOMMENDED BY JEFF MAHL 1908 Great Auto Race Website http://thegreatautorace.com/ 2018 NY to Paris Website http://www.2018nytoparis.com/ Automotive Hall of Fame http://www.automotivehalloffame.org/honoree/george-n-schuster/ Historic Vehicle Association https://www.historicvehicle.org/ BIOGRAPHY

Jeff Mahl

Jeff Mahl is the Great Grandson of George Schuster, driver of the Thomas Flyer and winner of the 1908 NY to Paris Automobile Race.

George lived to the age of 99, passing away on July 4, 1972. With a vivid recall, “Great Gramp” passed the legacy on to Jeff including his personal diary, letters, hundreds of original photographs, artifacts, as well as books and recordings, the incredible story lives on.

Jeff, a retired ship Captain, drove from Times Square NYC to the Eiffel Tower in Paris to celebrate the Race Centennial in 2011. In 2018 he drove the original US route from NY to San Francisco in a 1929 Ford Model A. The Artist: Pablo Picasso

By Doug A. Mishler, Ph.D.

Though born in the 19th century (1881), Pablo Picasso was for over 60 years of the 20th century literally the center of the Art universe. Even today in the 21st century, Picasso’s influence is still pronounced. This tiny man had an outsized impact on the world, as almost every artistic current or trend came through his studio or bore his influence. Up until his death in 1973 this painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright was one of the most significant people in the world.

This presentation will focus on Picasso’s most formative years between 1900 to 1910. These are his Paris years; the years that transformed the 19-year-old prodigy Pablo Ruiz into the infamous Picasso and with him the entire idea of what art was, and the entire cultural values of the 20th century.

From his youth Pablo’s genius and artistic drive were almost inhuman in scope. Yet those gifts also made him remarkably complex; he had tremendous charisma as well as a mercurial temperament. His drive was so extreme (working 10 -12 hours straight) all human concerns melted away. Yet outside the studio his focus was never certain.

He oozed the emotionalism that Spain was so famous for, and so he could be gregarious or sullen, and treated people with either incredible generosity or amazing disregard and even cruelty--often nearly simultaneously.

His passion was to create more powerful and subversive art to better capture what he saw in life. The brash colors and alterations of reality his modernist friend and competitor Henri Matisse created in 1905 motivated Picasso to break away from even these subversive norms, creating cubism.

In 1907 his cubist masterpiece Les Demoiselles d’Avignon so shattered all conventions that even his modernist friends were disturbed by his “losing his sanity.” Matisse found the work too radical. Yet he kept working in Cubism, his new artistic language for exploring the human condition. He also started to work on collage, and cubist sculpture. By 1910 Picasso had literally changed the way humanity looked at the world and they would never be the same!

Jeff experienced firsthand the accounts of his Great Grandfather, a rare opportunity to learn the history of this epic event from the man who won it.

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RESOURCES RECOMMENDED BY DR. DOUG A. MISHLER Primary: Picasso on Art: A Selection of Views, Edited by Dore Ashton, 1972 Secondary: Picasso and the Painting That Shocked the World by Miles J. Unger, 1918 A Life of Picasso: 3 Volumes by John Richardson, 2007-2014 Picasso: An Intimate Portrait by Olivier Widmaier Picasso, 2018 Picasso: A Biography by Patrick O’Brian, 1994 BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Doug A. Mishler, Ph.D. For over 20 years Doug has been nationally recognized for bringing “history to life.” In addition to Nikita Khrushchev, Doug has presented figures from Jack Warner and Ernie Pyle to his first P. T. Barnum. He has made literally hundreds of first person presentations as those above as well as Theodore Roosevelt, Stonewall Jackson, Henry Ford and 14 other historical figures. The voices in his head keep him busy, but he also makes time to direct and act and just started his own theatre company, all the while teaching history at the University of Nevada, Reno. Like his idol T. R., Doug believes there is still plenty of time to grow up and get a “real job”- but later!

Origins of the American Automobile Industry

By William N. Cathey, Ph.D.

During the first decade of the 20th century the American automobile industry grew from a collection of over two thousand small companies to the initial stages of what became the largest industry in the world but with many fewer successful companies.

The vast majority of companies failed, but the remaining few successful founders became enormously wealthy and influential. None was more notable than Henry Ford. He is remembered for his mechanical genius and his vision of how the automobile should serve society. Some incorrectly think he invented the automobile!

Although a European invention of the late 1800s, America needed personal transportation and therefore rapidly embraced the features provided by the automobile. Technologically advanced European countries did develop automobile industries but not as rapidly as did America.

Early forms of automobiles consisted of modified horsedrawn carriages, a well-developed industry, to which an experimental engine was attached. Many examples are found in the National Automobile Museum. The stationary 1 2 N AT I O N A L A U T O M O B I L E M U S E U M M A R C H 2 0 1 9

engines available for farm and manufacturing use were much too heavy for automobiles. A major engineering decision was which power source to use: electric, steam, or internal combustion. Electrics took an early lead, but internal combustion engines soon prevailed.

R. E. Olds was an early manufacturer of practical and topselling automobiles with his Curved-Dash model. Olds left his company when investors wanted to build large, expensive models with a larger profit margin. Successful bicycle builder A. E. Pope saw a future in automobiles and used his resources to manufacture models having a range of prices. This strategy was later successful for General Motors, but not so for Pope. Henry Ford also left his Henry Ford Company when investors called for larger, more profitable models. He formed the Ford Motor Company with investors more supportive of his dream automobile that was low cost and simple so owners could afford the autos and afford to keep them running.

The Model T Ford was the culmination of his dream. His efforts then concentrated on production efficiency which resulted in mass production or Fordism. His approach also made him the richest man in the world at the peak of Model T success.

By the end of the first decade of the 20th century, the automobile industry was ready to contribute to major changes in American society, with help from modern manufacturing tools, the emergence of scientific management, and the vision of some industry leaders, mainly Henry Ford.

RESOURCES RECOMMENDED BY WILLIAM N. CATHEY Rae, John B., The American Automobile, A Brief History, 1965, University of Chicago Press.

Halberstam, David, The Reckoning, 1986, William Morrow and Company.

The Henry Ford Museum website: https://www.thehenryford.org/ Smithsonian Institution automobiles website: http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object-groups/ BIOGRAPHY

William N. Cathey, Ph.D. William N. Cathey retired in 2012 as Vice Provost and physics professor at the University of Nevada, Reno. His career at UNR began in 1967.

Cathey’s teaching experience includes introductory through graduate-level physics. He has also team taught an interdisciplinary course on the history and social impact of the automobile. Research interests include the electronic structure of metals and hydrogen storage in metals. He has participated in the National Automobile Museum’s History Symposium for

several years and his hobbies include maintaining some ‘50s and ‘60s sports cars.

Cathey holds a B.S. in Engineering Physics, 1961; M.S. in Physics, 1962; and Ph.D. in Physics, 1966 from the University of Tennessee.

John Sparks: A Life of Adventure

of trail driving. John invested his profits in more cattle and made a pre-emptory claim for land in the Chugwater Valley of Wyoming Territory. He would soon sell this ranch to the Swan brothers – a deal so large it required a chattel mortgage, one of the first in the Territory. Sparks would continue the same pattern and build a large bankroll for his further adventures. Space limitations stop us from more detail.

By Michael E. Fischer, DDS

John Sparks was born August 30, 1843, to a family of new lands farmers. He was the seventh child of Samuel and Sarah Sparks. New lands people would break out and farm undeveloped ground on the frontier until the earth was “worn out.” Then it would be onto the next frontier and fresh ground. When John was about one-year-old, the Sparks family moved from his birthplace at Winston County, Mississippi to Ashley County, Arkansas. They would remain there until John was fourteen years old.

The next move found them in Lampasas, Texas. Texas and Nevada would become John’s home for the rest of his life.

The adventures were about to begin! His introduction to the cattle industry began at this new home in Texas. It was a time when beginning a cow herd only required a horse, saddle, rope, a branding iron and the fortitude to use them. Wild cattle flourished in the brushy country and the Sparks family established a herd in those early years.

Fate intervened with the budding business, when the hostilities of the Civil War began. By March 1862, John Sparks enlisted in the Frontier Regiment of the Texas Cavalry. He was a private, well-liked by his fellow soldiers for his good humor. Since Federal Troops had been withdrawn when the North-South conflict began, the Regiments job was to protect the settlers of west Texas from the depredations of the Comanche and Kiowa Indian tribes. Sparks excelled in his service. Toward the end of the Civil War, the Regiment was converted to Confederate service but they never had to engage with Union troops in combat.

At the close of hostilities, John returned to Lampasas and the Sparks ranch. Cattle had reproduced in Texas without any round-up during the entire period of the war. They were, again, literally available to anyone who would round them up. However, increased numbers translated into a diminished value for each animal. The north was hungry for beef and the trail-driving business was born. A four dollar Texas cow was worth forty dollars in the northern markets. At first, John and his family sold their cattle to drovers. Later John and his brother Tom would hire on as trail drivers themselves, earning a small wage but learning the business from the ground up. These drives took John to Wyoming Territory, Nevada and even east to the State of Virginia.

John had the strong backbone and mentality of a “plunger.” Despite a lack of formal education, he also had the math skill to recognize the immense profits available to the brave. In 1872 and 1873, he took large herds of cattle to Wyoming. The economics of the industry were excellent but not without risk. Indian raids, weatherrelated tragedies or outlaws were but a few of the hazards

RESOURCES RECOMMENDED BY MICHAEL E. FISCHER, DDS

Cattle in the Cold Desert by Sparks and Young Nevada’s Northeast Frontier by Patterson, Ulph and Goodwin The Trail Drivers of Texas by George W. Saunders BIOGRAPHY

Michael E. Fischer, DDS Dr. Michael E. Fischer was appointed Director of the Department of Cultural Affairs by Governor Jim Gibbons in January 2007 and served in the Sandoval Administration until Cultural Affairs was merged with Tourism. Prior to that, he practiced dentistry in Gardnerville for 31 years. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Nevada, class of 1971 and a Doctor of Dental Surgery degree from the University of Southern California, class of 1975.

Dr. Fischer brings many years of private sector cultural affairs management. He has served several terms on the Board of Directors of the Western Folklife Center, the group responsible for the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko. He was chairman of that board for four years. A life member of the Douglas County Historical Society, he was both a board member and President of the organization. Presently he is Secretary to the Thunderbird Lodge Preservation Society Board and Vice President of the Nevada Agricultural Foundation.

Dr. Fischer served eight years as a Douglas County Commissioner with multiple terms as Chairman. He also spent eight years on the Lake Tahoe Visitors Authority working with cultural and tourism-related events.

His interest in Nevada History began as a child when his family visited historic sites around the state. He portrays Governor John Sparks and Nevada agricultural pioneer H.F. Dangberg Sr. in Chautauqua performances.

He has been and continues to be involved with the conversion of the H.F. Dangberg Home Ranch into one of Douglas County’s newest and oldest attractions.

He is married to the former Janet Pascucci and lives in rural Douglas County. They have two grown daughters, Jennifer and Meredith.

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Compare and Contrast the 1903 Ford Model A and the 1909 Ford Model T

The Transformation of the Automobile Industry to Mass Production

By Jay Hubbard Henry Ford was the most successful manufacturer of automobiles in the United States and the world. Rising from humble beginnings Ford created the Ford Motor Company in 1903. His first car in this new company was the Model A. This car was assembled by Ford from parts he bought from other companies, most notably the Dodge Brothers with CR Wilson Carriage making the bodies. Ford’s principal contribution to the Model A was the $20 labor he paid for each vehicle.

However, this would change very soon with the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant built in 1904 in Detroit, Michigan.

This is where the Ford Model T was created and produced.

It is this car that has been credited with the beginning of mass production. Early experiments in the moving assembly line were created here. This plant was the first factory to assemble more than 100 cars in a single day.

This is where we see Henry Ford’s transition from an assembler of cars to a manufacturer of cars. The 1903 Model A and the 1909 Model T are examples of this transition. It can be said that the Model T is the most important car ever made and the beginning of the modern car.

BIOGRAPHY

Jay Hubbard

Jay Hubbard is the Automotive Collections Manager of the National Automobile Museum (The Harrah Collection) in Reno, Nevada. In addition to caring for a significant collection, Jay exhibits the Museum’s automobiles at notable Concours including Pebble Beach, Amelia Island and the Goodwood Festival of Speed in England. He is a Life Member of Packard Automobile Classics and the Studebaker Drivers Club, and currently serves as PAC’s Vice-President of Projects, is a past Vice-President of PAC and Director of two regional clubs.

His judging experience includes the Amelia Island Concours, many PAC National Meet car shows and Hot August Nights.

Jay has always been drawn to things mechanical. If it burns fuel and makes noise, he is there to figure it out. His deep-seated passion for the old car hobby, orphan cars, and the preservation of old iron remains insatiable.

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In Memory GORDON L. HORSLEY TRUSTEE EMERITUS 1938 – 2018

G

ordon Horsley was a member of the Board of Trustees in 1984 and 1985 while plans were under development for the new National Automobile Museum. He rejoined the Board after the Museum opened and served continuously from 1991 until late 2013, when he became Trustee Emeritus.

Horsley was not only one of the Museum’s most enthusiastic champions, he devoted his career to tourism and promoting the Reno-Tahoe area as a destination for groups and conventions. We are grateful for his involvement and his friendship.

He made a difference.

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NATIONAL AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM THE HARRAH COLLECTION

1900-1910: RENO, NEVADA

Tycoons & Trailblazers 2019 HISTORY SYMPOSIUM APRIL 24, 25, AND 27

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1900-1910: Tycoons & Trailblazers 2019 HISTORY SYMPOSIUM APRIL 24, 25, AND 27

Packed with notable national and local speakers, presentations, Chautauqua performances and activities - an experience you won’t want to miss!

REGISTRATION DEADLINE APRIL 22, 2019

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24 3:30 to 9 p.m.

3:30 p.m.

Check-in

4 p.m.

Welcome – Overview of the Symposium

by Jackie L. Frady, President and Executive Director, Museum

4:15 to 5:25 p.m.

Reformers and Risk-Takers: The Battle for Reno’s Soul

By Alicia Barber, Ph.D., author, historian, and founder of Stories in Place LLC

5:25 to 5:30 p.m.

Inservice Credit

Information for teachers

5:30 to 6:30 p.m.

Dinner Break

Please see Registration Form to order a meal.

6:30 to 7:40 p.m.

Pablo Picasso and the Birth of Modern Art

Chautauqua performance by Doug Mishler, Ph.D., Professor, University of Nevada, Reno, Chautauqua scholar

7:40 to 8:50

It’s 1908 - Where in the World are You?

A geography and history hands-on activity

8:50 to 9 p.m.

Summary/Distribution of materials

THURSDAY, APRIL 25 4 to 9 p.m.

4 p.m.

Announcements and Preview of the Program

by Barbara Clark, Symposium Project Manager, Museum

4:10 to 5:20 p.m.

Origins of the American Automobile Industry

by William N. Cathey, Ph.D., retired Vice Provost, Instruction and Undergraduate Programs, Professor of Physics, University of Nevada, Reno, automotive scholar

5:20 to 6:20 p.m.

10:15 to 11:30 a.m.

The Great Auto Race New York to Paris 1908

Chautauqua performance by Jeff Mahl, great grandson of George Schuster, driver of the 1907 Thomas Flyer and winner of the 1908 Race

11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Lunch

Please see Registration Form to order a meal.

12:30 to 1:40 p.m.

The Trans-Siberian Railroad and the Settlement of Russia’s “Wild East”

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by Steven G. Marks, Ph.D., Professor, History Department, Clemson University, author

6:20 to 7:35 p.m.

1:40 to 1:55 p.m.

by W. Frank Robinson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History, Vanderbilt University

1:55 to 3:05 p.m.

Dinner Break

The Panama Canal: Crossroads of the World

7:35 to 8:45 p.m.

A Chatauqua of the Life of John Sparks: A Man Who Did Everything You Could do in the West!

Break

Ida Minerva Tarbell: More Than a Muckraker: One Journalist’s Quest for Reliable Information

by Michael E. Fischer, DDS, past Director of the Nevada Department of Cultural Affairs, independent scholar, Nevada Humanities on the Road Chautauquan

by Bob Kochersberger, Ph.D., associate professor emeritus, North Carolina State University English Department, former director of journalism and graduate liberal studies programs, Fulbright professor, author

8:45 to 9 p.m.

3:05 to 4:15 p.m.

Summary/Distribution of materials

SATURDAY, APRIL 27 8:30 a.m. to 5:45 p.m.

8:30 a.m.

Gifford Pinchot and the National Conservation Movement

by Peter A. Kopp, Ph.D., associate professor of History and Director of the Public History Program at New Mexico State University, author

Muffins, Juice and Coffee

4:15 to 4:30 p.m.

8:45 a.m.

4:30 to 5:30 p.m.

Announcements and Preview of the Program

by Barbara Clark, Symposium Project Manager, Museum

8:50 to 10 a.m.

An Unlikely Trust: Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Improbable Partnership That Remade American Business

by Gerard Helferich, B.A., author, member of National Book Critics Circle, retired editor and publisher

10 to 10:15 a.m.

Break

Break

Compare & Contrast Ford’s 1903 Model A and 1909 Model T: Transformation of the Automobile Industry to Mass Production

by Jay Hubbard, Automotive Collections Manager, Museum

5:30 to 5:45 p.m.

Summary/Evaluations

Thank you for joining us for an exploration of 1900 -1910.

Schedule subject to change.

Teachers Receive Inservice Credit.

See back page for details.

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all participants Pasta Luncheon: Lemon Caesar salad with parmesan reggiano; garlic bread; roasted chicken with a mushroom cream sauce; tortellini with pesto, roma tomatoes and mozzarella, assorted dessert bites (cookies, strawberries, brownie bites); lemonade, soda and water Mexican Buffet: Jicama and watermelon salad with lime cilantro dressing; arroz con pollo (grilled chicken over rice with salsa and cheese); black beans; pico de gallo; tortilla chips; salsa; Mexican wedding cookies; lemonade, soda and water Northern Italian Buffet: Rocket salad with hard egg and crispy cheese; chicken piccata; basmati herb rice; roasted vegetable ratatouille; mascarpone tiramisu; lemonade, soda and water

These delicious meal options are prepared by the Museum’s new caterer Roundabout Catering & Party Rentals.

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2019 SYMPOSIUM

TEACHER INS ER V IC E C RE D I T The symposium has received “Inservice Course Approval” from the Nevada Department of Education. Teachers in Washoe County, Incline Village, Lyon County and throughout Nevada will receive one inservice credit for attending. Teachers will register with the Museum for this credit by submitting the Registration Form in this brochure. Upon completion of the symposium, teachers will be issued a Certificate of Inservice Credit according to the regulations of the Nevada State Board of Education.

J OI N US Enjoy diverse topics, thought-provoking and entertaining presentations and rich content.

We encourage participants to analyze, reflect and question the relevance and influence of past events and experiences. This is the sixteenth in a series of remarkable symposiums, and award-winning ones too!

The 2017 history symposium, The 1970s: Activism – Voices for Change earned a First Place NAAMY Award of Excellence in Educational Programs in the annual competition of the National Association of Automobile Museums, receiving a perfect score in all categories from the lead judge.

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The Museum’s 2012 history symposium, The 1920s: Barnstormers to Bootleggers, won Nevada Humanities’ first ONLY $60 PER PERSON “Outstanding Humanities Project Award” for Northern

SPACE IS LIMITED Nevada in 2013.

All of the Museum’s symposiums have been funded in part by grants from Nevada Humanities and National Endowment for the Humanities and approved for teacher inservice credit.

A THANK YOU TO OUR SUPPORTERS

We sincerely appreciate the following, whose generous support has made it possible for the Museum to present 1900-1910: Tycoons & Trailblazers

20th CENTURY

AUTOMOBILE ENDOWMENT FUND

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MADE POSSIBLE BY A GRANT FROM THE THELMA B. & THOMAS P. HART FOUNDATION

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Adventure

The Museum’s new STEM field trip began in the theatre with the film, This Car Matters, about the 1907 Thomas Flyer in the New York to Paris Race.

Many simple machines were used to overcome great obstacles during the race.

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hanks to a generous grant from the Thelma B. & Thomas P. Hart Foundation, the Museum developed and introduced a new STEM field trip (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) in November 2018 for third through sixth grade students. The grant made it possible to offer this program to more than 20 classrooms from Title 1 elementary schools in the Washoe County School District (WCSD). The mission of the WCSD’s federally funded Title 1 program is to assist eligible Title 1 schools in their efforts to provide services that will ensure that all children have an opportunity to obtain a high quality education and to achieve proficiency on high academic standards.

Title l schools have a high percentage of students from low-income families.

Each classroom received a stipend of up to $150 to apply to the cost of bus transportation and/ or admission, which was reduced to $2 from the standard field trip rate of $4.

starting in the Theatre and progressing to Gallery One, the Classroom and ending in Gallery Four.

Simple Machines and Technology were the primary subjects. Machines included the inclined plane, lever, wheel and axle, pulley, gears, screw and wedge. Technology focused on early automobile headlights (candles, acetylene gas and electricity) and starters (crank and electric).

The Museum is a rich STEM environment that features exceptional primary sources. Unique to this field trip were pre-1915 automobiles, particularly the world-renown 1907 Thomas Flyer, winner of the 1908 New York to Paris Race.

Students watched a film, This Car Matters, in which the race team used simple machines to overcome enormous hardships.

After which, students were excited to see an artifact

A variety of teaching tools kept students engaged in this interactive program, such as verbal and written instruction, an activity pamphlet, scavenger hunts, hands-on activities, demonstrations, iPads and film.

Moving from location to location added to the sense of adventure,

High-energy, keen curiosity and an abundance of enthusiasm was the theme for a series of excellent student adventures at the Museum.

After watching This Car Matters, children are excited to see the “real” 1907 Thomas Flyer.

Educator Jenny McFarlane teaches students about the simple machines that are part of the vehicle and were used throughout the arduous journey.

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Students search for different types of headlights during a Technology Scavenger Hunt in Gallery One.

Now it’s time to see how simple machines work in a series of hands-on activities.

We sincerely thank the Thelma B. & Thomas P. Hart Foundation for making it possible for the Museum to offer this special program.

This was a successful project.

Evaluations indicated teachers were very satisfied with the STEM content, students were engaged in activities that addressed a significant number of academic standards, and learning tools proved to be effective.

We want to thank Jenny McFarlane, an experienced educator, who the Museum engaged to develop and implement our new STEM field trip. Through her efforts, queries were sent to elementary school teachers ranging from grades 1 through 6, some of whom were the science lead for their school. Teachers were asked about what science units/topics they were planning to do with their students during the 2018/2019 school year, and their recommendations of topics our Museum should present. Documents were reviewed to clarify State Standards/Next Generation Standards for elementary school science topics.

Jenny’s work was thorough, creative and met our many project goals, and she did an excellent job working with both teachers and students.

that served a real purpose in the world and gained historical significance. They examined the “real” Thomas Flyer in their quest to identify simple machines on this automobile that were used in “real” situations.

Through pre- and post-field trip tests, students exhibited a notable increase in knowledge from this three-hour lesson.

Most gratifying was providing the opportunity to students from low income, high need schools that usually receive inequitable distribution of resources and quality opportunities that contribute to an achievement gap.

The classroom is the place to explore and build gears and pulleys.

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Thirty Years Ago This is a very special year: the Museum turns 30 on November 5, 2019.

It

was Sunday, November 5, 1989, when the doors were officially opened to the public, following a stunning gala the evening before. This year the Museum’s annual Anniversary Party for members and supporters will be on November 7, 2019, and will be a celebration of this milestone.

Here is some news from 30 years ago.

“MOVING MOUNTAINS”

“THANK GOODNESS IT’S SPRING”

Excerpt from “Precious Metal” newsletter, Volume Three, #11, February 1989

Excerpt from “Express News,” April 1989

Over the years, the William F. Harrah Automobile Foundation has had to move a few mountains in its effort to develop the new NATIONAL AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM. Now, with construction underway, it became necessary to move a real “mountain” to prepare the museum’s downtown Reno building site. Krump Construction and sub-contractor Smith & Collup moved over 51,500 cubic yards of earth to establish a solid base for building foundations. It was also necessary to raise the average elevation of the 4 ½ acre riverside site by 18 inches to insure the new museum would stand above the Truckee River’s 100-year flood plain. That phase of construction is now complete, and work has shifted to concrete footings and slab, underground electrical and plumbing, and site utility installation work. Wall framing will also be underway by the time this issue of Precious Metal goes to press. The building is scheduled to be framed-in by midMarch, weather permitting.

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This winter abundant snow, below zero temperatures, frigid winds and frozen ground did not make for ideal construction conditions at the site of the new William F. Harrah Foundation NATIONAL AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM. Thankfully, the sun now shines and in a remarkably short time the walls and roof system for the building have been largely completed. Interior partition framing, sheet rock applications, and even some work related to the street scene exhibits is now underway.

Progress is visible every day.

Still on schedule for a Fall 1989 completion, Foundation officials will be announcing the museum’s grand opening date in the near future. In the meantime, planning for the opening event has begun and Ben Dasher, Foundation Chairman, assures that it will be among Reno’s most memorable occasions.

Since January 1, 1988, and under the direction of Executive Director William Ray, The William F. Harrah Automobile Museum had been operating in Sparks in the space designated as Showroom One at the former site of Harrah’s Automobile Collection.

Several staff members who were employed by Harrah’s and assigned to Harrah’s Automobile Collection had changed employment, including Jackie Frady, the current executive director. Effective January 1, 1988, staff became employees of The Harrah Automobile Foundation, the nonprofit that was formed in 1981 to receive a gift of automobiles from Holiday Inns (the company that purchased Harrah’s in 1980) and to build a new museum in downtown Reno – the National Automobile Museum.

MUSEUM ON THE MOVE

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SAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL Reno-Sparks Convention Center January 9-12, 2019 1921 Ford Model T Kampkar

AUTO SHOW 2019 Reno-Sparks Convention Center February 15-17, 2019 1921 Ford Model T Kampkar 2005 Chevrolet Corvette C6 2-Door Convertible Raffle Car and Ticket Sales

HAVE YOU MARKED YOUR CALENDAR TO ATTEND OUR SECOND THURSDAY TALKS? FREE TO MUSEUM MEMBERS, INCLUDED WITH PAID ADMISSION. OTHERWISE, IT IS $5 PER PERSON TO ATTEND THE TALK. On the Second Thursday of each month, the Museum offers an entertaining presentation from 1:30 – 2 p.m., followed by refreshments and a chance to mingle with our speakers and Museum guests.

In early 1989, the museum operation included an impressive car collection, a museum store where admission tickets and merchandise were sold, a snack bar, business offices in an open floor plan, and a research library.

Talks are included with admission, free to members and volunteers, otherwise, they are $5 per person. Reservations are not required.

Simply drop by every second Thursday.

Efforts were focused on operating the temporary museum site, completing construction, preparing for an impending move and developing an operations plan for the new museum. A feasibility study indicated the National Automobile Museum would experience huge attendance numbers, earning substantial revenue needed for operating the new facility and easily retiring the construction debt. It was an exciting and optimistic time.

Because the 2018 series proved to be popular with our members, volunteers and visitors, the series continues in 2019. We have an excellent line up of speakers scheduled, offering a wide range of subjects. Be sure to check our Calendar of Programs and Events in this issue and watch for our e-news announcements.

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VOLUNTEER NEWS

Volunteers – Our Greatest Resource

BOARD OF TRUSTEES’ ANNUAL HOLIDAY THANK YOU PARTY It was a festive occasion on December 12, 2018, when our team was celebrated at the annual Holiday Volunteer and Staff Thank You Party. The focus was on volunteers for their dedication and valuable service, and employees for their important work and commitment to the Museum. Members of the Board of Trustees each made personal donations to show their gratitude by hosting a delicious dinner catered by Roundabout Catering & Party Rentals.

The theme of Executive Director Jackie Frady’s presentation centered on “assets.” She explained assets include the building, property, contents and a priceless collection; however, the Museum’s most important asset is its people. Volunteers and staff were sincerely thanked for their valuable role in the operation and success of the Museum. As a group, they have an impact on the organization every day, and their efforts make it a top-rated, award-winning, well-run and well-managed Museum.

Because of them, this is a place that people want to visit, work, to volunteer and support.

THE COMPETITION This evening becomes a little competitive – it’s tables against tables (well, it’s the people at these tables).

Each year Jackie Frady tells the story of annual programs, activities and accomplishments, and also shares some Museum history through a contest. This year winning tablemates received Kimmie Candy in a container shaped like the state of Nevada.

Frady explained that this group had become our Museum family. This didn’t happen through hiring employees or offering volunteer positions. The family began when the heart was added to our organization...when volunteers joined to share their skills and to make a difference, and the compensation they desired was a heartfelt thank you, and camaraderie and friendship. The family began when staff members were not simply employees, but a dedicated team with a common cause and willingness to pull together to get a job done, and showing compassion towards one another. This family is reinforced and strengthened through kindness, commitment, and supporting each other professionally and personally.

Holiday contest winners pictured from left to right, Dick Petersen, Jan Petersen, Linda Milstead, Jim Milstead, Kim Park, Jeff Park,Terry Nielsen and Lynn Nielsen.

During the evening, volunteers were recognized who had been with the Museum for 10 or more years and those who had contributed more than 100 hours of service in 2018. Employees were recognized for their commitment, unique contributions and length of employment.

Winners of door prizes donated by the Museum’s management team members and Jackie Frady, pictured left to right, Janice Hubbard, Bill Riley, Linda Abrahamson, Otto Mabry, Doug Hast, Lynn Scherfenberg, Gary Crain, Bruce Wright, Jeff Park and Frank Papp.

The Board of Trustees were thanked for their tremendous support of the Museum – for the time they share and the expertise they bring to the organization, their generosity, and for their commitment to ensure success is possible year after year.

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2018 – VOLUNTEERS WHO CONTRIBUTED 100 OR MORE HOURS

Bill Petty

486.5

John Plough

Gary Crain

477

Eric Cole

John Sell

333

Mary Warth

Bruce Wright

298.25

Rick Wilson

159.5

Leonard Bonilla

245.75

Bill Bremer

150.25

Cal DeCoursey

242

Nancy Lowe

144.75

Eric Nordberg

238.5

Rod Smith

141

Norm Miller

231.25

Al Abrahamson

130.5

John Peterson

219

Peter Lui

127.75

John Harp

216

Shelagh Bremer

127.25

Janice Hubbard

197.25

Susie Reinke

120.25

Patty Kozik

191.5

Linda Abrahamson 115.5

Terry Nielsen

184.25

Lynne Scherfenberg 111.5

Verna Peeler

179

Otto Mabry

Greg Howe

177.5

THANKS A MILLION

We thank our volunteers who contributed 100 or more hours of service in 2018. What a valuable contribution!

We sincerely appreciate all of the volunteers who helped the Museum in 2018.

We want to express our appreciation to those who have made significant donations to the Museum.

177.25 174.5

Jeffrey and Marlys Balsamo Hayward, CA, financial contribution

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Brad and Carole Ripley Reno, NV, financial contribution SKAL International Reno, NV, financial contribution in memory of Gordon Horsley Ranson and Norma Webster Foundation Fund at the Community Foundation of Western Nevada Reno, NV, graphic services grant

THANKS NEW ADOPT-A-CAR SUPPORTERS - $500 Otto Mabry 1907 Thomas Flyer

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2018 – VOLUNTEERS OF 10 YEARS OR MORE This is a remarkable commitment and accomplishment. We can’t begin to express our appreciation of the volunteers who have been part of our team for so many years. They are the foundation of our Museum Family.

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Doug Hast Patty Kozik Dick Petersen John Plough David Schulte

George Canavan Norm Miller Darrell LaRue

John Fuller

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Al Abrahamson

2007 - 1 1 YEA RS

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Susie Reinke

Linda Abrahamson Craig Hartman Rick Wilson

2006 - 1 2 YEA RS

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Tina Hubbard

Rod Smith

2005 - 1 3 YEA RS

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Leonard Bonilla Craig Williams

Verna Peeler Merrilie Witham

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Mary Warth

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CALENDAR OF PROGRAMS & EVENTS JANUARY

APRIL

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

11 THURSDAY

10 THURSDAY

1:30 - 2 p.m.

Second Thursday Talk Firefighting in the 1890s The calm before the revolution.

12 SATURDAY

9:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Science Saturday Training Future Astronauts

FEBRUARY

1:30 - 2 p.m.

Second Thursday Talk McPherson College’s One-of-a Kind Program The only school offering a bachelor’s degree in Auto Restoration.

13 SATURDAY 9:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Science Saturday Building Biospheres

ANNUAL HISTORY SYMPOSIUM

9 SATURDAY

Wednesday, 24 – Saturday, 27 Wed., 4 - 9 p.m.

Thurs., 4 - 9 p.m.

Sat., 8:30 a.m. - 5:45 p.m.

14 THURSDAY

1900-1910: Tycoons & Trailblazers Explore this innovational decade with renowned national speakers, authors, and state and local experts. $60. Register at automuseum.org

9:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Science Saturday Engineering Spacecraft 1:30 - 2 p.m.

Second Thursday Talk John DeLorean and the Gold DeLorean The golden boy and the golden dream.

MARCH WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH

9 SATURDAY

9:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Science Saturday Roving Mars

10 SUNDAY

Amelia Island Concours d’ Elegance Jacksonville, FL 1936 Mercedes-Benz Type 500K Special Roadster

12 TUESDAY

1 - 5 p.m.

AARP Driver Safety Program at the Museum Refresher course for drivers 50 and older that qualifies for auto insurance discounts for those 55 and older. $20 and $15 for AARP members. Register at (775)440-1236 or aarp.org/drive.

14 THURSDAY

1:30 - 2 p.m.

Second Thursday Talk Joan Cuneo Racing hero who paved the way for other women.

MAY OLDER AMERICAN’S MONTH Engage at Every Age Free admission to Seniors (50 and older) each Thursday in May.

Wednesday, 1 – Sunday, 5 Reno Space Festival Presented by Nevada Space Center Register at nevadachallenger.org

9 THURSDAY

1:30 - 2 p.m.

Second Thursday Talk Virgil Exner Visionary designer and corporate savior.

11 SATURDAY 9:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Science Saturday Monitoring the Sun

14 TUESDAY

1 - 5 p.m.

AARP Driver Safety Program at the Museum Refresher course for drivers 50 and older that qualifies for auto insurance discounts for those 55 and older. $20 and $15 for AARP members. Register at (775)440-1236 or aarp.org/drive.

BLUE STAR MUSEUMS NATIONAL PROGRAM

Monday, May 27 – September 2 Memorial Day through Labor Day Free admission to active duty military families.

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SCIENCE SATURDAYS Presented by Nevada Space Center. $12 Register at nevadachallenger.org

JUNE

8 SATURDAY

9:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Science Saturday Talking to Space

13 THURSDAY

1:30 - 2 p.m.

Second Thursday Talk E.L. Cord Industry pioneer who created empires in transportation.

JULY HOLIDAY PARTIES

It’s time to book your holiday party at the Museum.

11 THURSDAY

1:30 - 2 p.m.

Second Thursday Talk 1923 “Copper-Cooled” Chevrolet World’s rarest Chevrolet and the genius behind it.

12 FRIDAY

National Collector Car Appreciation Day Drive your collector car to the Museum and receive half-off admission.

13 SATURDAY 9:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Science Saturday Making Space Art

21 SUNDAY

Hillsborough Concours d’Elegance Burlingame, CA 1961 Roth Beatnik Bandit Custom Hot Rod

AUGUST HOT AUGUST NIGHTS POKER WALK STOP

Wednesday, 7 – Saturday, 10 at the Museum.

8 THURSDAY

1:30 - 2 p.m.

Second Thursday Talk The Lincoln Highway The road trip that created the Interstate Highways.

10 SATURDAY 9:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Science Saturday Deflecting Asteroids

SECOND THURSDAY TALKS

Free to Museum members, included with paid admission. Otherwise, $5 per person to attend the talk.

AUGUST cont.

18 SUNDAY

Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance Pebble Beach, CA 1907 Thomas Flyer 35 New York-to-Paris Racer

SEPTEMBER

10 TUESDAY

1 - 5 p.m.

AARP Driver Safety Program at the Museum Refresher course for drivers 50 and older that qualifies for auto insurance discounts for those 55 and older. $20 and $15 for AARP members. Register at (775)440-1236 or aarp.org/drive.

12 THURSDAY

1:30 - 2 p.m.

Second Thursday Talk André Citroën The man and his cars.

14 SATURDAY 9:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Science Saturday Learning to Fly

21 SATURDAY

Museum Day Live!

Smithsonian magazine or Smithsonian.com offers free admission on a ticket good for two people.

28 SATURDAY

Ironstone Concours d’Elegance Murphy’s, CA 1933 “Al Jolson” Cadillac Series 452C All Weather Phaeton

OCTOBER

10 THURSDAY

1:30 - 2 p.m.

Second Thursday Talk Billy Durant The colorful genius who created General Motors.

12 SATURDAY 9:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Science Saturday Living on the Moon

26 SATURDAY

Las Vegas Concours d’Elegance 1938 Phantom Corsair Experimental Six-Passenger Coupe 1961 “Frank Sinatra” Ghia L.6.4 Hardtop

DAILY THEATRE PRESENTATIONS 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.

The Bill Harrah Story and The Magic Carriage

OCTOBER cont.

31 THURSDAY

DAILY INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE

Nevada Space Center All Day

DAILY GUIDED TOURS 1:30 p.m.

Based on tour guide availability

2019

EXHIBITS

NOVEMBER

MASTERPIECE EXHIBIT ON DASHER DRIVE Since the advent of autos, we’ve pushed the limits of speed. See racers from Indy to the treacherous roads of Mexico and witness their stories.View fascinating photos of European racing, 1903 to 1925, by famed Henri Louis Meurisse.

MUSEUM’S 30TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY THURSDAY, 7 For Members Only Anniversary festivities and 2005 Corvette raffle car drawing.

PRESENTED BY NEVADA SPACE CENTER Created by Eureka Exhibits Changing Exhibits Gallery and Gallery Three

4:30 p.m. - 7.30 p.m.

Trick or Treat in the Streets of the Museum Family Halloween fun with candy stations and games.

Special admission: $2

9 SATURDAY

9:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Science Saturday Eating in Space

11 MONDAY

VETERANS DAY

Free Admission Day for Veterans.

12 TUESDAY

1 - 5 p.m.

AARP Driver Safety Program at the Museum Refresher course for drivers 50 and older that qualifies for auto insurance discounts for those 55 and older. $20 and $15 for AARP members. Register at (775)440-1236 or aarp.org/drive.

14 THURSDAY

1:30 - 2 p.m.

Second Thursday Talk The Evolution of Gasoline Quality

DECEMBER

12 THURSDAY

1:30 - 2 p.m.

Second Thursday Talk Erwin “Cannonball” Baker Record-setting motorcycle racing pioneer.

14 SATURDAY 9:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Science Saturday Exploring Space

HOLIDAY SHOPPING Shop in the Museum Store and visit the Museum for a fun, family outing.

Museum Membership is a perfect holiday gift.

World-class exhibit for all ages that teaches science and engineering through video game technology, simulators, artifacts and NASA reconnaissance data.

Experience the excitement of spaceflight through interactive simulator pods and much more.

FEATURING THE WINNING CAR: 1907 Thomas Flyer Gallery Four Remarkable story of man and machine against unimaginable odds in the 1908 New York to Paris race, featuring the winning car, the Museum’s 1907 Thomas Flyer, a 2016 entry in the National Historic Vehicle Register within the Library of Congress.

BILL HARRAH 1911-1978: LEGENDARY COLLECTOR Heritage Corner Story of legendary collector and gaming pioneer Bill Harrah, founder of Harrah’s Automobile Collection, the largest, most significant collection of its time. Discover events that led to its disbursement and the public outcry that saved some of the best and created the National Automobile Museum (The Harrah Collection).

EVEN IN AFRICA Entrance Hallway Gallery Paintings by Reno artist Robert Cinkel depicting Museum autos in intriguing locales, from a starry night in the Nevada desert to India, Egypt and “even in Africa.”

HAPPY HOLIDAYS! Call (775) 333-9300 for more details.

Events and programs subject to change.

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MUSEUM STORE Convenient free parking in the Museum lot on Museum Drive off Mill Street.

KIMMIE CANDY is a small, family-owned candy company based in Reno, Nevada. They create many uniquely shaped and delicious candies. We are honored to have Kimmie Candy as a sponsor of the National Automobile Museum.

We thank them for their support!

GEAR SHIFT WINE BOTTLE STOPPER This finely crafted bottle stopper is made of wood and metal with a rubber seal. It fits standard bottles.

Great gift for a car enthusiast and/or wine connoisseur. $25

UNIQUE JEWELRY Are you looking for a one-of-a-kind conversation piece? We have some beautifully hand-crafted jewelry made from piano wire, Fordite, and gears as well as many other unique items.

There are pendants, bracelets and earrings. $25 to $120

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THE MUSEUM STORE IS OPEN DAILY. MONDAY – SATURDAY 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

SUNDAY 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

PRECIOUS METAL DIGITAL OPTION AVAILABLE ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A MORE CONVENIENT AND EFFICIENT WAY TO READ OUR PRECIOUS METAL MAGAZINE? Is portability and easy access a factor for you? Would you like to share and post what you read to social media for others to enjoy or are you simply interested in saving a tree? We have the answer for you.

HANDMADE SCARVES These “handmade from love in Detroit” scarves are fine quality and feature an accent of either a racing stripe or race tracks on the respective scarf. The vibrant red scarf features a black/white racing stripe. The rich black features either a gold racing stripe or gray race tracks. The soft gray features deep gray race tracks. $60 AUTOMOBLOX - DREAM-BUILD-DRIVE! These minis are an innovative reinvention of the classic wooden toy car. They are a popular favorite because of their imaginative play, creativity and collectability. Not recommended for children under 3 years. $12.50

Take a moment to flip through our digital issues of Precious Metal magazine at https://issuu.com/automuseum.

This magazine is a benefit of membership.

JOIN OUR E-NEWS MAILING LIST MAKE SURE YOU’RE ON THE MUSEUM E-NEWS MAILING LIST Receive our latest news and opportunities through monthly e-newsletters and announcements.

Send your email address to info@automusuem.org.

HISTORICAL HAND-MADE MEMENTO

The memento features a laser engraved, delicate line-drawing of the new bridge’s design and dedication dates.

If you can’t shop in person, you can shop online at automuseum.org or call the Museum at (775) 333-9300 to place an order that will be mailed to you or your gift recipient.

Please remember, purchases in the Museum Store help support the Museum. Not only are you buying wonderful gifts, you’re helping a good cause.

Celebrate the historic Virginia Street Bridge with a hand-made memento.

This laser-engraved, limited edition, historical memento was made from a salvaged piece of the demolished Virginia Street Bridge, which stood in downtown Reno, Nevada for 110 years (1905-2015).

Available for a donation of $75.00 or more.

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GRATITUDE 2018 ANNUAL GIVING CAMPAIGN

Thank you for helping the Museum through the Power of Your Support. $ 5 ,0 0 0 T O $9,999 Clark/Sullivan Construction Norman L. Dianda

Every donation makes a difference and we sincerely thank each of you for making it possible to raise $53,864 during the 2018 Annual Giving Campaign.

$ 1 ,0 00 T O $4,999 Bacon Family/Minden Automotive Museum (In Memory of Ted Bacon) The William E. Connor Foundation, Inc. The Deborah and T.J. Day Foundation Deborah C. Day Janice Hamilton (In Memory of Frank Hamilton) Stan Lucas Otto Mabry Art and Joyce Majors

NV Energy Dick and Jan Petersen Sandy Raffealli for Bill Pearce Motors Dan and Maureen Rovig John and Gail Sande DeArmond and Joyce Sharp Preston and Dianne Sides Ron and Linda Smith Stephen Stepler and Susan Scarritt

UP TO $999 Al and Linda Abrahamson Carrie Ahlborn (In Memory of James Elliott Roantree, Jr.) James Alder Tim Allen Richard Baumgartner Janet L. Chubb DeVonde and Kathleen Clemence Arthur Cook Tony and Pat Costa Wayne and Alzina Davis Daryl Drake Ron Ebert Dale and Diane Edwards Sidney Burr and Sharon Ellis Tony and Debby Fakonas Steve and Jackie Frady Robert and Paula Gales Paul Georgeson Bruce and Christie Gescheider James Hardy Gary and Edna Helmers Arne and Marie Hoel Marshall Hunt Bob Jackson Robert L. Lewis Michael Lockwood

Machabee Capital, Inc. John and Donna MacIntyre Larry MacNeil Frank and Shaunna Marshall Richard, Judith and Nicolaus Maus (In Memory of Melvin L. Daiss) George and Sherry McConnell Judith Morgan Peter J. Mulvihill Gordon and Gail Nathan Lebo Newman Jim and Penny Nicely Terry and Lynn Nielsen Mark Paloolian Chuck and Marilyn Parmalee George F. Peek Verna Peeler and Merrilie Witham Gordon and Cecile Peters John A. Peterson Janice Pine John Plough Q & D Construction Dean Radtke Danno Raffetto Reno Sparks Convention & Visitors Authority Roamin’ Angels

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Gerry Roberts Edward Rocha Joey Scolari Larry and Leona Seidell Thomas and Diane Shima Sierra Air, LLC Richard Simmonds Rod and Sharon Smith Jack Sogard Ted Stoever Brian D. Suen Ralph and Sandy Theiss Tholl Fence, Inc. Bruce and June Thomas Thunderbird Lake Tahoe Hjalmar D. Trent Lillian Trinchero Bill Von Phul Carl Waddle Don and Barbara Waite Ruth Warren Victor Wetterberg Cal Willoughby Newt Withers Robert Yturbide Ronald and Mary Liz Zideck

 

NEW MEMBERS

Memberships help sustain the Museum’s programs and events and we extend our thanks to our newest members.

BECOME A MEMBER

You Can Make a Difference When you become a member, you join us in preserving a remarkable collection and sharing the story of one of the most significant inventions in our country’s history not only today, but for generations to come. Stories of innovation and ingenuity that spark imagination, stimulate learning, and educate and entertain audiences of all ages – a stepping stone to the future. Plus, you’ll enjoy valuable benefits from free admission and Museum Store discounts to a subscription to Precious Metal, e-news, and invitations to events and activities.

Thank you for joining our team.

DRIVING FORCE –

CORPORATE LEVEL 1 DRIVING FORCE William Warner

SUPPORTING Kevin Schaller

CONTRIBUTING Paula Ganley

FAMILY

Jeanne Clark Matthew Gale Shannon Highline Cheryl & John Lewis Clayton & Hallie Madole Jeffery Nelson Bob Nugman Wayne Stahnke

COMPANION

Lorelei Foll John Grange Marianne Gray John and Nancy Jorgensen Drew Vince

INDIVIDUAL Clay Breuner Albert Fernandes Deb Kure Otto Mabry Brian Schimke

Please note: Our members are very important to us. If you were incorrectly listed or omitted, please let us know and we’ll be happy to correct your listing.

For information, please call (775) 333-9300

O INDIVIDUAL $45 O COMPANION $60 O FAMILY $70 O CONTRIBUTING $150

O SUPPORTING $250 O PATRON $500 O BENEFACTOR $1,000 O DRIVING FORCE $1,000 O DONATION $________

DRIVING FORCE CORPORATE O LEVEL 1 $2,750 O LEVEL 2 $5,000

O LEVEL 3 $10,000

O Send information about the Driving Force Corporate Membership O Send information about the exclusive Driving Force Membership

MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION

Bill Pearce Motors, Sandy Raffealli

NAME ___________________________________________ ADDRESS _________________________________________ CITY/STATE/ZIP CODE _______________________________ TELEPHONE _______________________________________ EMAIL ADDRESS ___________________________________ RECRUITED BY _____________________________________ If you prefer to use your credit card: MASTERCARD

VISA

AMERICAN EXPRESS

DISCOVER

CARD NUMBER ____________________________________ EXPIRATION DATE ____________ SECURITY CODE _______ SIGNATURE _______________________________________ Billing Address for Credit Card if different from above: _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ Please make checks payable to: National Automobile Museum 10 South Lake Street Reno, NV 89501-1558

Membership expires one year from date of issuance. Join online at automuseum.org.

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The Harrah Automobile Foundation 10 S. Lake Street, Reno, NV 89501-1558

THE MUSEUM IS OPEN DAILY MONDAY – SATURDAY 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

SUNDAY 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

ADMISSION

Adults $12, Seniors $10 Youth ages 6-18 $6 Children 5 and under free Members free OFFICERS Chairman Ranson Webster President Jackie L. Frady Vice President Paul Georgeson Secretary Janet L. Chubb

Ted Stoever B.J. Sullivan Allen J. Wilt

Treasurer William E. Ramsey TRUSTEES Ned Bacon Brian Colodny Phil DeLone Norman L. Dianda Philip G. Satre

Gordon L. Horsley Louis F. Sellyei, Jr., M.D.

CHAIRMAN EMERITUS Benedict J. Dasher

HONORARY TRUSTEES John A. Harrah Tony L. Harrah

TRUSTEES EMERITUS Ted Bacon

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Jackie L. Frady

PURCHASE TICKETS AT THE MUSEUM 40 Tickets for $20

8 Tickets for $5 1 Ticket for $1

Buy 40 tickets and WE fill them out!

The next time you’re at the Museum, buy tickets for a chance to win a Corvette.

It’s a great way to support the Museum.

WIN

2005 CHEVROLET CORVETTE C6 2-DOOR HATCHBACK

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400 HP, 6 Liter Aluminum V8

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18-Inch Aluminum Wheels

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4-Speed Automatic Transmission with 3.15 Rear Axle Ratio

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Air Conditioning

AM/FM Radio with 6 Disk CD, MP3, and 7-Speaker Bose Sound System

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Electronic Instrument Panel with Heads Up Display

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Dual Power Reclining Seats with Driver Memory and Heated Seat

Removable Roof Panel

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Dual Power, Heated Outside Mirrors

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Leather Wrapped, Tilt and Telescoping Steering Wheel

Machine Silver Metallic Exterior with Black Leather Bucket Seats

Power Steering, Windows and Door Locks

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66,000 Original Miles Aftermarket Options – Procharger Supercharge – Custom Exhaust – Lambo Doors

The winning ticket will be drawn on November 7, 2019, at the Museum’s 30th Anniversary Party.