Motorists with R-C-H press automobile on rural road leading to Gary, Indiana, 1912 Chicago Reliability Run

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Description

View of motorists R-C-H press car parked on side of rural road leading to Gary, Indiana during the 1912 reliability contest sponsored by the Chicago Motor Club. Contestants circled Lake Michigan, passing through Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan and Indiana. Stamped on back: "Spooner & Wells, Inc., photographers, 1231 Woodward Ave., Detroit, Mich., telephone North 1745." Handwritten on back: "The road to Gary was like a billiard table and took fifty miles an hour, RCH press car coming, Chicago Reliability Run, 1912. Tours--Chicago Reliability Run, 1912."

Details

Creator:: Spooner & Wells
Resource ID:: na020413
Subject:: Automobiles--Middle West; Rural roads--Middle West; Hupp Motor Car Company; Automobile driving--Competitions--Middle West; Automobile travel--Middle West; Photographers--Michigan--Detroit; Photographic prints
Date:: 1912-10
Format:: 1 photographic print ; 4.5 x 6.5 in.
Department:: National Automotive History Collection
Collection:: Lazarnick Collection
Location:: Tours--Chicago Reliability Run, 1912
Copyright:: Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.