K11073 - First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt purchase of custom Plymouth (car) - framed document signed
kg: Walter P. Chrysler Typed Document Signed Describing Eleanor Roosevelt’s Custom Plymouth [Misc. Americana] [Automobile Industry] [Famous Women] [First Ladies]
Signed by Walter Chrysler. July 31, 1933.
K11073 $2,500
Walter P. Chrysler (1875-1940). Born in Wamego, Kansas. He started his working life as an apprentice in a Union Pacific Railroad machine shop, and by 1912 was works manager of the Buick Motor Co. By 1916 he had become company president, resigning to become a director of Willys-Overland and Maxwell Motor Co.(from 1925, the Chrysler Corporation). He introduced the ‘Plymouth’ motor car and designed the first high compression engine.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962). Diplomat and humanitarian, born in New York City, the niece of Theodore Roosevelt and the wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt, her distant cousin, whom she married in 1905. She took up extensive political work during her husband’s illness from polio, and proved herself an invaluable adviser to him when he became president. In 1941, she was appointed assistant director of the Office of Civilian Defense. After her husband’s death in 1945 she extended the scope of her activities, and was a delegate to the UN Assembly (1946), US representative at the General Assembly (1946-1952) and chair of the UN Human Rights Commission.
Signed by Walter Chrysler. July 31, 1933.
K11073 $2,500
Walter P. Chrysler (1875-1940). Born in Wamego, Kansas. He started his working life as an apprentice in a Union Pacific Railroad machine shop, and by 1912 was works manager of the Buick Motor Co. By 1916 he had become company president, resigning to become a director of Willys-Overland and Maxwell Motor Co.(from 1925, the Chrysler Corporation). He introduced the ‘Plymouth’ motor car and designed the first high compression engine.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962). Diplomat and humanitarian, born in New York City, the niece of Theodore Roosevelt and the wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt, her distant cousin, whom she married in 1905. She took up extensive political work during her husband’s illness from polio, and proved herself an invaluable adviser to him when he became president. In 1941, she was appointed assistant director of the Office of Civilian Defense. After her husband’s death in 1945 she extended the scope of her activities, and was a delegate to the UN Assembly (1946), US representative at the General Assembly (1946-1952) and chair of the UN Human Rights Commission.