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Group portrait of pathfinding team and Reception Committee, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1912 Glidden pathfinding expedition

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Description

View of group of men, the pathfinding team and Reception Committee, posing in front of building at New Orleans, Louisiana during the pathfinding expedition for the 1912 Glidden Tour. The pathfinding tour covered a route from Detroit, Michigan to New Orleans, Louisiana, but the 1912 Glidden Tour was canceled. Stamped on back: "Spooner & Wells, Inc., photographers, 1231 Woodward Ave., Detroit, Mich., telephone North 1745." Handwritten on back: "Pathfinders and escorts at New Orleans, 1912. Tours--Glidden Tour, 1912."

Details

Creator:: Spooner & Wells
Resource ID:: na026507
Subject:: Portraits, Group; Glidden Tour (1912); Automobile travel--United States; Photographers--Michigan--Detroit; Photographic prints
Date:: 1912
Format:: 1 photographic print ; 4.5 x 6.5 in.
Department:: National Automotive History Collection
Collection:: Lazarnick Collection
Location:: Tours--Glidden Tour, 1912 #2
Copyright:: Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.