Print, Photographic

Black and white photograph of Ormond Edson Hunt, the vice president of General Motors; Theodore F. MacManus, the president of Cadillac-LaSalle advertising partner MacManus; and Cadillac manager Victor A. Olsen seated at a banquet table at the national meeting of distributors which kicked off the launch of Cadillac-LaSalle's 1936 merchandising campaign. A typewritten caption pasted to the verso reads:

Cadillac-LaSalle starts off its big merchandising program for the 1936 series cars with a national meeting of 500 distributors and sales managers in Detroit Sept. 30-Oct. 1. The visitors were addressed by executives of both Cadillac and General Motors. Some of them are shown in the above picture. left to right: (3 in center) O.E. Hunt, vice-president General Motors; T.F. MacManus, president MacManus, John & Adams, Inc., which now handles Cadillac-LaSalle advertising; V.A. Olsen, works manager for Cadillac.