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This image appeared in Auburn Magazine, vol. 1, no. 1, 1922, published by the Auburn Automobile Company, Auburn, Indiana. Ralph Bard was a member of the company's board of directors at that time and later became Assistant Secretary of the Navy (1941-1944) and Under Secretary of the Navy (1944-1945). The Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Museum, Auburn, Indiana, now claims ownership, but the pre-1923 publication of the image in the United States probably overrides that insofar as use on the English-language Wikipedia is concerned. I purchased a digitalized copy of the image from the museum on October 4, 2004, and have specific permission to use it on Wikipedia. The image also appeared in The Princeton Alumni Weekly, vol.XXVII, No. 23, March 18, 1927 at p. 695, col. 1.
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Ralph Austin Bard, Assistant Secretary of the U.S.Navy (1941-1944) and Under Secretary of the Navy (1944-1945), at the time he was a director of the Auburn Automobile Company in 1922.