Man on horseback approaching Flanders automobile at Pickens, Mississippi, 1912 Glidden pathfinding expedition

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Description

View of man on horseback approaching Flanders electric car at Pickens, Mississippi during the pathfinding expedition for the 1912 Glidden Tour. Car and commercial buildings in background. 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 meet with some interested spectators in Pickens, Miss., 1912. Tours--Glidden Tour, 1912."

Details

Creator:: Spooner & Wells
Resource ID:: na026480
Subject:: Electric automobiles--Mississippi; Flanders Manufacturing Company; Horses--Mississippi; Horsemen and horsewomen--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 #1
Copyright:: Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.