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The American Automobile Timeline 1899-1970
The ultimate multimedial Historical Archive
Vincent Romano and ROMANO-ARCHIVES proudly present one of the most important Car Culture related Project ever promoted in Italy.
The hugest Italian private digital archive related to the American Automobile History, more than 60000 images and over 2000 multimedial files (videos, digitalized film footage, audio recordings, QTVRs and PDF documents) regarding the American Automobile 1899-1970 TIMELINE, is now available for researchers, historians, teachers, students and enthusiasts, in two separated Collections.
One of the purposes of our service is to offer a new approach to the contemporary U.S. History (from an automobile-centric point of view...) to the American students, Schools and Universities.
The Project embeds various cultural specifications.
The researcher will find, besides images and videos regarding almost every model produced during every single year by all the American Automobile Makes (even the smaller ones...), a complete Collection of images regarding the Automobile in the Advertising. It will be possible to watch and print this precious and complete iconography: thousands of Ads from original vintage magazines, automobile related brochures, manuals, posters, most of them acquired in high resolution.
After years of research we can also offer an impressive number of vintage Screen and TV commercials, with pratically no analogies with other private archives in Europe.
But, most of all, we offer a simultaneous trip with the small everyday stories of the Americans at the wheel, and with the big historical events that changed the States (and the World) during the first 70 years of the last Century, with thousands of epoca images and movies related to every single historical moment. From the Automobile getting into the landscape for the first time to the early "no rules" races on the beaches near Daytona; from the introduction of the Ford Model T to the 1917 involvement in WW l; from Prohibitionism to the Wall Street Crisis; and so on, reviving the New Deal, the 1939 Futurama, the industrial conversion of WW II and the post-war reconversion, the early 50ies' cars in the b-movies with the flying soucers, the Rock&Roll era, the futuristic concept cars, Korea, Vietnam, the Psychedelic 60ies...
For us at ROMANO-ARCHIVES, in the end, the Project has reached its goal, giving to the researcher a way to use the Automobile like a key-code, in order to focalize the Spirit of America during the XXth Century. To understand, to revive the past, looking once again (or for the first time...) at those cars, those roads, those people, those events.
The American Automobile Timeline 1899-1970
A Historical Images Collection (More than 60000 JPEGs)
We do provide duplicates of the images of the Collection on a customized CD-ROM on a (1) cost-recovery basis.
The images of this Collection are perfectly suitable for Art Prints Photos and Posters for your Home or Office! These images are perfect to personalize Hotels, Cocktail-lounges, Restaurants, Discos and many other places too!
We will teach you, without additional charge, how to obtain large Posters and even Gigantographies from these copies of our original masters.
(1) It is possible to obtain hi-resolution digital duplicates of the images from the Collection. Those files have been made available by Romano-Archives for use in research, teaching, general interest user information, and private study. The fees charged for these images are on a cost-recovery basis (the original resolution and size of any image are indicated inside our surfable 2,77 Gb demo-DVD, with more than 60000 thumbnailed images and 28 actual size sample images).
The files are available on a customized CD-ROM.
Billing is done when the order is fulfilled. Payment instructions will follow. Normal turn around time for requests is 3 weeks. Rush (2-3 business days) is available for an additional fee of 40 Euros.
Romano-Archives will provide up to 6,000 (or about 10% of this Collection) images to a single requesting party.
The fees for these files are as follows:
CD-ROM and 1 image = 12 Euros; additional images = 8 Euros each. If request takes more than one CD, the fee cycle begins again. Postage is paid for by the requesting party.
If you want to receive the demo-DVD (80 EUR, plus postal expenses) or have any questions about these charges or need clarification of the service of providing digital multimedial files, please contact Vincent Romano. vincenzo.romano56@tin.it
All the material in the Romano-Archives Collections is in the public domain and has no copyright attached to it. Only exception are original articles or texts published on this Website and the Romano-Archives' original compilations on CDs or DVDs that are subject to copyright.
Material of the Romano-Archives Collections is made available solely for historical research and educational purposes only. Any trademarks appearing on the material are the sole property of the registered owners. No endorsement by the trademark owners is to be construed, nor was any sought. The products, brand names, characters, related slogans and indicia are or may be claimed as trademarks of their respective owners.
The American Automobile Timeline 1899-1970
Multimedial Historical Collection (Over 2000 files)
We do provide duplicates of the multimedial files of the Collection on a customized DVD-ROM on a (1) cost-recovery basis.
Almost all the digital copies of the films are good quality Hi-Res editable videos.
Hundreds of hours of footage from this Collection are available in different format, size and definition. We can suggest you the right one for the use you have in mind.
PRIVATE USE: home TV vision (DVD-Divx player), PC, iPod.
WE LICENSE FOOTAGE from our Collections for: multimedial creations on CD or DVD, TV commercials, film or TV programs, documentary Productions, web sites, marketing/ad campaigns, video email, electronic kiosks, trade shows, business seminars, cultural events, museums, expositions... and more.
Hi-Res videos from our Collections are available on DVD, CD or directly in your inbox. Clips and movies can also be downloaded from our servers using a PW or uploaded by us to your FTP.
WE ARE JUST WAITING FOR YOUR INQUIRES!!!
(1) It is possible to obtain digital duplicates of the multimedial files (movies, videos, audio documents, and Virtual Reality files) from Romano-Archives for research, teaching, general interest user information, and private study purposes.
The fees charged for these files are on a cost-recovery basis.
The size, run-time, quality, and detailed informations regarding any multimedial file are indicated in the list inside our demo-DVD, where you can find images and/or animated gifs illustrating any file, 10 demo-videos, 2 for every different quality class, and 10 samples regarding the other kind of multimedial files composing the collection.
The files are available on a customized DVD-ROM.
Billing is done when the order is fulfilled. Payment instructions will follow. Normal turn around time for requests is 3 weeks. Rush (2-3 business days) is available for an additional fee of 40 Euros.
Romano-Archives will provide up to 400 (or about 20% of this Collection) multimedial files to a single requesting party.
To know the fees applied for these files please contact Vincent Romano. vincenzo.romano56@tin.it
If you want to receive the demo-DVD (66 EUR, plus postal expenses) or if you have any questions about the fees or need clarification of the service of providing digital multimedial files, please contact Vincent Romano. vincenzo.romano56@tin.it
The multimedial files of the Collections are compatible with the free version of the most common players: Quicktime Player, Real Player, Windows Media Player.
Mac users can easily view MPEG 1, MPEG 2, MPEG 4, and Divx movies in MacOSX with the free version of this program: VLC Media Player.
All the material in the Romano-Archives Collections is in the public domain and has no copyright attached to it. Only exception are original articles or texts published on this Website and the Romano-Archives' original compilations on CDs or DVDs that are subject to copyright.
Material of the Romano-Archives Collections is made available solely for historical research and educational purposes only. Any trademarks appearing on the material are the sole property of the registered owners. No endorsement by the trademark owners is to be construed, nor was any sought. The products, brand names, characters, related slogans and indicia are or may be claimed as trademarks of their respective owners.
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A historical guide about the American Automobile Timeline 1899-1970, plus a partial list of this multimedial Collection is now available on line in 35 pages. The complete list, with animated gifs plus 20 sample files, is available on our Demo-DVD.
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The European Automobile
Historical Images Archive
This Collection totals 3748 images.
The researcher will find, besides historical and actual images regarding the rarest and the strangest automobile models produced in Europe from 1866 to 1970, a rich collection of images regarding the European Automobile in the Advertising. It will be possible to watch and print this precious iconography: hundreds of extremely rare Ads from original vintage magazines, automobile related brochures, manuals, posters, most of them acquired in high resolution. A huge part of the Collection is dedicated to the Grand Prix races, in their evolution up to today's Formula 1.
We do provide duplicates of the images of the Collection on a customized CD-ROM on a (1) cost-recovery basis.
The images of this Collection are perfectly suitable for Art Prints Photos and Posters for your Home or Office! These images are perfect to personalize Hotels, Cocktail-lounges, Restaurants, Discos and many other places too!
We will teach you, without additional charge, how to obtain large Posters and even Gigantographies from these copies of our original masters.
(1) It is possible to obtain hi-resolution digital duplicates of the images from the Collection. Those files have been made available by Romano-Archives for use in research, teaching, general interest user information, and private study. The fees charged for these images are on a cost-recovery basis (the original resolution and size of any image are indicated inside our surfable demo-CD, with 3737 thumbnailed images and 28 actual size sample images).
The files are available on a customized CD-ROM.
Billing is done when the order is fulfilled. Payment instructions will follow. Normal turn around time for requests is 3 weeks. Rush (2-3 business days) is available for an additional fee of 40 Euros. Romano-Archives will provide up to 1000 (or about 25% of this Collection) images to a single requesting party.
The fees for these files are as follows:
CD-ROM and 1 image = 12 Euros; additional images = 8 Euros each. If request takes more than one CD, the fee cycle begins again. Postage is paid for by the requesting party.
If you want to receive the demo-CD (50 EUR, plus postal expenses) or have any questions about these charges or need clarification of the service of providing digital multimedial files, please contact Vincent Romano.vincenzo.romano56@tin.it
All the material in the Romano-Archives Collections is in the public domain and has no copyright attached to it. Only exception are original articles or texts published on this Website and the Romano-Archives' original compilations on CDs or DVDs that are subject to copyright.
Material of the Romano-Archives Collections is made available solely for historical research and educational purposes only. Any trademarks appearing on the material are the sole property of the registered owners. No endorsement by the trademark owners is to be construed, nor was any sought. The products, brand names, characters, related slogans and indicia are or may be claimed as trademarks of their respective owners.
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Last update: June-29-2009
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