Motorists in Mais truck at Detroit, Michigan, 1911 Chicago Reliability Run
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Description
View of driver and passengers with Mais truck in Detroit, Michigan, surrounded by onlookers, during the 1911 reliability contest sponsored by the Chicago Motor Club. Contestants traveled on routes through Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Michigan. Detroit City Hall in background. Stamped on back: "Spooner & Wells, Inc., photographers, 1231 Woodward Ave., Detroit, Mich., telephone North 1745." Handwritten on back: "Mais. Tours--Chicago Reliability Run, 1911."
Details
- Creator:
- Spooner & Wells
- Resource ID:
- na020267
- Subject:
- Trucks--Michigan--Detroit
- Mais Motor Truck Company
- Motor vehicle driving--Competitions--Middle West
- Photographers--Michigan--Detroit
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- 1911
- Format:
- 1 photographic print ; 4.75 x 7 in.
- Department:
- National Automotive History Collection
- Collection:
- Lazarnick Collection
- Location:
- Tours--Chicago Reliability Run, 1911 #2
- Negative Number:
- Negative #C17,844
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.