Automobile Quarterly: The Ultimate Photography Collection
About Automobile Quarterly
AQ was a hardbound, advertising-free periodical, published from 1962-2012. Professional photographers shot all the images, and while AQ published some, only their staff saw the rest. Most of the images are color negative transparencies taken with 35mm cameras. The photographs come from the Museum’s Automobile Quarterly (AQ) collection, and are a representative sample.
More information on the Collection is found on the Museum’s Omeka image site.
Click on the images to see more for each vehicle.
Email archivist Abigail Bergsman-Carpenter if you have any questions or wish to obtain high resolution digital copies. Online in Omeka as of February 2025: 52 brands, 248 models, 8,122 images.
NHPRC Grant: The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) awarded the Museum a one-year grant to process the AQ records. The project goals are to complete processing by September 2025, create a detailed keyword-searchable finding aid with about 10,000 rows of folder headings and about 250 pages in length, and digitize a sample of 1,500 images of photographs, documents, and drawings. The finding aid and images will be available for free on multiple sites. The NHPRC, located within the National Archives, provides opportunities for the American people to discover and use records to broaden public understanding of our democracy, history, and culture.