Scenes from the Flag-to-Flag Endurance Run from Denver to Mexico City
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Description
View of Chalmers-Detroit pathfinder car in Mexico and southwestern United States during the Flag-to-Flag Endurance Run from Denver to Mexico City. Printed on front: "From Denver Col. to Mexico City. Bridge over dried river-bed; telegraph line acts as a guide; fifteen miles from Peublo [sic], no farms in this section; shooting at prairie dogs, arrival at Colorado Springs; armed for sport or for defence; modern and old means of transportation, pathfinding car passing ditches; modern and old means of transportation; on a concrete bridge; leaving Denver. Chalmers-Detroit is the car, F. Ed. Spooner is the photographer." Handwritten on back: "Tours--Denver to Mexico City Endurance Run (Chalmers)."
Details
- Creator:
- Spooner, F. Ed.
- Resource ID:
- na020540
- Subject:
- Automobiles
- Chalmers-Detroit Motor Company
- Automobile travel--Mexico
- Automobile travel--Southwestern States
- Photographers--New York (State)--New York
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- c.1909
- Format:
- 1 photographic print ; 10 x 8 in.
- Department:
- National Automotive History Collection
- Collection:
- Lazarnick Collection
- Location:
- Tours--Denver to Mexico City Endurance Run (Chalmers)
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.