Flanders automobile traveling on rural road near Tutwiler, Mississippi, 1912 Glidden pathfinding expedition

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Description

Rear view of Flanders electric car traveling across boards on rural dirt road near Tutwiler, Mississippi during the pathfinding expedition for the 1912 Glidden Tour. The pathfinding tour covered a route from Detroit, Michigan to New Orleans, Louisiana, but the 1912 Glidden Tour was canceled. Handwritten on back: "Washout south of Tuttwiler [sic], Miss., pathfinding trip, 1912. Tours--Glidden Tour, 1912."

Details

Resource ID:: na026644
Subject:: Electric automobiles--Mississippi; Flanders Manufacturing Company; Rural roads--Mississippi; Glidden Tour (1912); Automobile travel--United States; Photographic prints
Date:: 1912
Format:: 1 photographic print ; 4.5 x 6.5 in.
Department:: National Automotive History Collection
Collection:: Lazarnick Collection
Location:: Tours--Glidden Tour, 1912 #5
Copyright:: Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.