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Auto Reference Collection goes to Simeone, AACA

PHILADELPHIA _ The Free Library of Philadelphia has announced it will sell its huge Automobile Reference Collection to the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum in Southwest Philadelphia and the Antique Automobile Club of America Library in Hershey.

The reference material will now be called the Thomas McKean Collection, named after the collector of auto manuals and ephemera who

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