Flanders automobile, trucks and Everitt automobile near Wesson, Mississippi, 1912 Glidden pathfinding expedition
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Description
Rear view of Flanders electric car and two trucks on rural dirt road near Wesson, Mississippi during the pathfinding expedition for the 1912 Glidden Tour. Everitt car is visible in background. The pathfinding tour covered a route from Detroit, Michigan to New Orleans, Louisiana, but the 1912 Glidden Tour was canceled. Stamped on back: "Spooner & Wells, Inc., photographers, 1231 Woodward Ave., Detroit, Mich., telephone North 1745." Handwritten on back: "Everitt, a bad road in Mississippi, 1912. Tours--Glidden Tour, 1912."
Details
- Creator:
- Spooner & Wells
- Resource ID:
- na026798
- Subject:
- Electric automobiles--Mississippi
- Flanders Manufacturing Company
- Automobiles--Mississippi
- Metzger Motor Car Company
- Trucks--Mississippi
- Rural roads--Mississippi
- Glidden Tour (1912)
- Automobile travel--United States
- Photographers--Michigan--Detroit
- 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 #8
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.