Flanders automobile traveling on muddy rural road near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1912 Glidden pathfinding expedition

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View of Flanders electric car traveling on muddy rural road near Baton Rouge, 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. Handwritten on back: "Heavy going, 25 miles out of Baton Rouge, pathfinding trip, 1912. Tours--Glidden Tour, 1912."

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Resource ID:: na026710
Subject:: Electric automobiles--Louisiana; Flanders Manufacturing Company; Dirt roads--Louisiana; 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 #6
Copyright:: Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.