Flanders automobile in front of sawmill on the Mississippi River, 1912 Glidden pathfinding expedition

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Description

View of Flanders electric car parked on railroad tracks in front of sawmill on the Mississippi River during the pathfinding expedition for the 1912 Glidden Tour. Logs float in river in background. The pathfinding tour covered a route from Detroit, Michigan to New Orleans, Louisiana, but the 1912 Glidden Tour was canceled. Handwritten on back: "Pathfinder along the Misssissippi River, pathfinding trip, 1912. Tours--Glidden Tour, 1912."

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Resource ID:: na026567
Subject:: Sawmills; Electric automobiles; Flanders Manufacturing Company; Logging; Glidden Tour (1912); Automobile travel--United States; 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 #4
Copyright:: Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.