License Plates...Extinct & Extant: A History

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Marvin, Keith
Keck, Arthur J.

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1957-10

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Jurisdictions

Worldwide
Afghanistan
Albania
Alderney (GBR)
Algeria
American Samoa (USA)
Angola
Anguilla (GBR)
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Aruba (NLD)
Australia
Australian Capital Territory (AUS)
Austria
Andorra
Azores (PRT)
Bahamas
Bahrain
Barbados
Belize
Bermuda (GBR)
Bolivia
Belgium
Bonaire (NLD)
Botswana
Brazil
British Virgin Islands (GBR)
Brunei Darussalam
Bulgaria
Burundi
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Canal Zone (USA)
Canary Islands (ESP)
Chile
China
Colombia
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Costa Rica
Crete (GRC)
Curaçao (NLD)
Cuba
Cyprus
Czechoslovakia
Denmark
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Eswatini
Ethiopia
Faroe Islands (DNK)
Fiji
Finland
France
French Guiana (FRA)
Gambia
Germany
Ghana
Gibraltar (GBR)
Greece
Grenada
Guadeloupe (FRA)
Guam (USA)
Guatemala
Guernsey (GBR)
Guyana
Haiti
Hawaii (USA)
Honduras
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Isle of Man (GBR)
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Jersey (GBR)
Jordan
Kenya
Kuwait
Laos
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Liechtenstein
Luxembourg
Macao
Madagascar
Madeira (PRT)
Malawi
Malaysia
Malta
Martinique (FRA)
Mauritius
Mexico
Monaco
Montserrat (GBR)
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar
Namibia
Netherlands
New Caledonia (FRA)
New South Wales (AUS)
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Nigeria
Niue (NZL)
Northern Mariana Islands (USA)
Northern Territory (AUS)
Norway
Pakistan
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Pemba (TZA)
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico (USA)
Qatar
Queensland (AUS)
Réunion (FRA)
Romania
Rwanda
Ryukyu Islands
Saarland
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia (GBR)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon (FRA)
Samoa
San Marino
São Tomé and Principe
Saudi Arabia
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Sikkim
Singapore
Sint Maarten (NLD)
South Africa
South Australia (AUS)
South Korea
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Suriname
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Tahiti
Taiwan
Tangier
Tanzania
Tasmania (AUS)
Thailand
Tonga
Trieste
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Türkiye
Uganda
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
United Kingdom
United States
Uruguay
Vanuatu
Vatican City
Venezuela
Victoria (AUS)
Vietnam
Virgin Islands (USA)
Western Australia (AUS)
Yemen
Yugoslavia
Zambia
Zimbabwe

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The first effort to write a comprehensive history of the license plates of the world, beginning with a hypothesized origin of vehicle registration in the Roman Empire and moving through the registration, at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century, of automobiles in Europe and the United States. License plate design, colors, and manufacture are discussed, followed by a discussion of license plates organized by continent and then country. Entries include number of vehicles registered, design and color of individual plates, issuing authority, prefix and suffix codes, and other information, followed by black and white illustrations and photographs of representative license plates, 1912 license plates of the United States, 1957 New York license plate types, New York license plates from 1905 to 1957, and photographs and descriptions of the international license plate collection of H. Bogart Seaman. Also includes an insert of the Atlas Tires advertisement illustrating 1957 license plates of the United States and Canada published in The Saturday Evening Post, June 1, 1957; Look, July 23, 1957; This Week Magazine, June 9, 1957; Farm Journal, July 1957; and Progressive Farmer, July 1957. Uses the following nonstandard or obsolete jurisdictional names: Aden; Basutoland; Bechuanaland; Belgian Congo; British Guiana; British Honduras; British Isles; British North Borneo; Burma; Ceylon; Channel Islands; Eire; Formosa; French Equatorial Africa; French West Africa; Korea; Malaya; Mariana Islands; New Hebrides; Northern Rhodesia; Nyasaland; Ruanda-Urundi; Rumania; Saar; St. Kitts, Nevis and Anguilla; St. Thomas & Principe Islands; Sarawak; Southern Rhodesia; Southwest Africa; Soviet Union; Spanish Guinea; Surinam; Swaziland; Tanganyika; Union of South Africa; Western New Guinea; Western Samoa; Zanzibar. Also includes illustrations of “obsolete issues” from Alabama (USA), Birmingham; Alabama (USA), Mobile; Austria; Austria-Hungary; Baja California (MEX); Belgian Congo; Belgium; Brazil; British Guiana; British Honduras; Burma; Camaguey (CUB); Central Arab Palestine (JOR); Chihuahua (MEX); China, Shanghai; China, Tien-tsin; Coahuila (MEX); Croatia; Czechoslovakia; Danzig; Dodecanese Islands (ITA); Dutch East Indies; Egypt; Estonia; Finland; Federal Capital Territory (AUS); French Indochina; Germany; Greece; Hawaii (USA), Honolulu; Hong Kong; Iceland; India; Japan; Kansas (USA), Kansas City; Kentucky (USA), Covington; Latvia; Libya; Lithuania; Louisiana (USA), New Orleans; Luxembourg; Manchuria; Mexico; México (MEX); Monaco; New South Wales (AUS); New Zealand; Northern Territory (AUS); Ohio (USA), Columbus; Palestine (GBR); Pennsylvania (USA), Philadelphia; Pennsylvania (USA), Pittsburgh; Poland; Queensland (AUS); Saar; San Luis Potosí (MEX); San Marino; Saudi Arabia; Slovakia; Sonora (MEX); Spanish Morocco; Surinam; Syria; Tahiti; Tamaulipas (MEX); Tasmania (AUS); Texas (USA), Bell County; Trans-Jordan; Turkey; Victoria (AUS); Virgin Islands (USA), St. Thomas; Western Australia (AUS). Yugoslavia. Published as an article in the October 1957 issue of The Automobilist (Vol. VII, No. 4).

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Article in a periodical, staple bound; 8½ × 11 inches; pages 35-125; illustrated

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Contact research@registrationhistory.org for access options; physical resource located in the VRHC collection.

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The Automobilists of the Upper Hudson Valley, Inc.

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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14819/35

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