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Bobcat Company Records, 1940s-2009

July 23, 2014
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Inventor Name

Keller, Louis and Cyril

Repository

Archives Center
National Museum of American History
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
202-633-3270
http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives

Physical Description

56 cubic feet, including photographs, films, posters, and audio and videotape (128 boxes, 7 oversize folders, 24 16mm films, 38 ¾ inch U-Matics, 13 Betacam-SP videotapes, 1 Digital Betacam videotape, 9 VHS videotapes, 10 CD-ROMs, and 4 DVDs.)

Summary

The Bobcat Company Records document a post-war invention process and American manufacturing system through the case study of a dynamic machine, the Bobcat skid-steer loader. The records focus primarily on Bobcat’s products, marketing, and advertising through product literature, photographs, advertisements, posters, newsletters, and audiovisual materials.

Finding Aid

http://amhistory.si.edu/archives/AC1129.pdf

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