Vintage, early 20th century Singer sewing machine on display in the Lodge House at the Packard Proving Ground.Hilary Davis
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Small-Scale 20th Century Design: The Singer Sewing Machine

A different kind of 20th Century engineering! Exploring the Singer sewing machine.
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Check It Out: Continuing the PPG Library Project

Our holdings include a diverse array of print publications, newsletters, magazines, and Packard-original documents that we plan to preserve and protect for the long term.
black and white photo of the Repair Garage Building in disrepair taken in 1998Hilary Davis
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Serendipity – Part 3

This was to be the first in a long line of big and little disappointments during the early days of discovering the PPG.
Gate Lodge Garage in disrepair photo from 1998Hilary Davis
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Serendipity, Part 2

He described the buildings to me, but when he got to the description of the lodge, I knew I had my mystery building.
1998 black and white image of a run down Lodge building at the Packard Proving Grounds Historic SiteHilary Davis
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Serendipity

I thought there was a good chance that the mystery house on Van Dyke could be a country manor designed for some Packard exec by Kahn. So I started exploring.