National automobile in front of Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Arch, 1913 Overman tires 10,000 mile demonstration
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Description
View of motorists posing in National car in front of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Arch in Brooklyn, New York during the 1913 Overman tires 10,000 mile demonstration. 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: "April-2-1913." 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:
- na030643
- Subject:
- Automobiles--New York (State)--New York
- National Motor Vehicle Company
- Soldiers' monuments--New York (State)--New York
- Arches--New York (State)--New York
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Monuments--New York (State)--New York
- Automobiles--Tires--Testing
- Automobile travel--Middle Atlantic States
- Photographers--New York (State)--New York
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- 1913-04-02
- 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 #8
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.