Motorists posing in National automobile next to gate, 1913 Overman tires 10,000 mile demonstration
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Description
View of motorists posing in National car next to gate for Port of Missing Men tea house during the 1913 Overman tires 10,000 mile demonstration. Sign on gate reads: "Port of Missing Men, Titicus Mountains, tea house, private road." The car was outfitted with a set of Overman cushion tires and driven over different routes and road surfaces within a 50 mile radius of New York, New York. Printed on front: "May-7-1913." Stamped on back: "Spooner & Wells, Inc., photographers, 1931 Broadway, N.Y. City, phones 3472-3473 Col." Handwritten on back: "Tours--Overman tires 10,000 mile demonstration, 1913."
Details
- Creator:
- Spooner & Wells
- Resource ID:
- na030796
- Subject:
- Automobiles
- National Motor Vehicle Company
- Gates
- Automobiles--Tires--Testing
- Automobile travel--Middle Atlantic States
- Photographers--New York (State)--New York
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- 1913-05-07
- Format:
- 1 photographic print ; 4.5 x 6.5 in.
- Department:
- National Automotive History Collection
- Collection:
- Lazarnick Collection
- Location:
- Tours--Overman tires 10,000 mile demonstration, 1913 #14
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.