Digitizing Automotive History — Part 3: The Answer to Paper Preservation

Bob Gerometta
2 min readApr 22, 2022
This 1961 Ford Starliner illustration is found in the 1961 Ford Deluxe Brochure

If Paper Won’t Meet Preservation Needs — What Will? . . . . Digitization.

What is Digitization? When you think of digitization think about your phone — you take a picture, it becomes “digitized” and then can be uploaded to the Internet, sent to another phone, or loaded on social media.

Bob Gerometta

Gear head, archivist, historian, mystery writer — I’ve been called a “renaissance man”, but I’m very, very sure . . not