Flanders automobile parked in front of Hotel Edwards at Jackson, Mississippi, 1912 Glidden pathfinding expedition

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View of Flanders electric car parked in front of Hotel Edwards at Jackson, Mississippi during the pathfinding expedition for the 1912 Glidden Tour. Onlookers stand on sidewalk. 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: "The Pathfinder in front of Hotel Edwards, Jackson, 1912. Tours--Glidden Tour, 1912."

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Creator:: Spooner & Wells
Resource ID:: na026505
Subject:: Electric automobiles--Mississippi--Jackson; Flanders Manufacturing Company; 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.