More than one hundred years ago the freedom-loving, speed-hungry motorcycle fanatics who founded Harley-Davidson began producing what would become the most important motorcycles in history.

The company's founders knew from the start that they had created something special. Almost immediately they began collecting at least one example of virtually every model the company ever produced, from serial number one, built in 1903, to the amazing luxury touring bikes the company builds in the twenty-first century.

The Harley-Davidson Motor Co. Archive Collection,...