Mule-drawn wagon preparing to tow automobile across Back Creek near Roanoke, Virginia, 1911 Glidden Tour

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Description

View of mule-drawn wagon preparing to tow car across Back Creek near Roanoke, Virginia during the 1911 Glidden Tour. Two men sit in wagon in foreground; spectators, barn and haystack on riverbank in background. Stamped on back: "Spooner & Wells, Inc., photographers, telephones 3472-3473 Columbus, 1931 Broadway, New York." Handwritten on back: "The old mules comes to aid of tourists crossing creek near Roanoke, Va., Glidden Tour. Tours--Glidden Tour, 1911."

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Creator:: Spooner & Wells
Resource ID:: na025772
Subject:: Automobiles--Virginia; Rivers--Virginia; Wagons--Virginia; Mules--Virginia; Glidden Tour (1911); Automobile driving--Competitions--United States; Photographers--New York (State)--New York; Photographic prints
Date:: 1911-10
Format:: 1 photographic print ; 7 x 5 in.
Department:: National Automotive History Collection
Collection:: Lazarnick Collection
Location:: Tours--Glidden Tour, 1911 #10
Negative Number:: Negative #C24,523
Copyright:: Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.