Flanders automobile traveling on levee near Pickens, Mississippi, 1912 Glidden pathfinding expedition

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View of Flanders electric car traveling on plank road on levee near Pickens, Mississippi during the pathfinding expedition for the 1912 Glidden Tour. Man stands on roadside. 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 at the end of the levee near Pickens, Miss., 1912. Tours--Glidden Tour, 1912."

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Creator:: Spooner & Wells
Resource ID:: na026544
Subject:: Electric automobiles--Mississippi; Flanders Manufacturing Company; Levees--Mississippi; Plank roads--Mississippi; 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 #3
Copyright:: Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.