Motorist filling radiator of Rapid truck, 1910 Glidden Tour
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Description
View of motorist filling radiator of Rapid truck during the 1910 Glidden Tour. Sign on truck reads: "This Rapid truck climbed Pikes Peak, 15,000 feet above sea level covered Glidden Tours 1907, 1908, 1909." Spectators stand in front of truck; wooden-frame building in background. Large American flag is suspended over street. Stamped on back: "Spooner & Wells, Inc., photographers, telephone North 1745. 1231 Woodward Ave., Detroit, Mich. Detroit, 1231 Woodward, New York, 1931 Broadway." Handwritten on back: "Tours--Glidden Tour, 1910."
Details
- Creator:
- Spooner & Wells
- Resource ID:
- na025036
- Subject:
- Trucks
- Rapid Motor Truck Company
- Spectators
- Glidden Tour (1910)
- Automobile driving--Competitions--United States
- Photographers--Michigan--Detroit
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- 1910
- Format:
- 1 photographic print ; 4.75 x 6.75 in.
- Department:
- National Automotive History Collection
- Collection:
- Lazarnick Collection
- Location:
- Tours--Glidden Tour, 1910 #18
- Negative Number:
- Negative #C23,804
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.