National automobile in front of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 1913 Overman tires 10,000 mile demonstration

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Description

View of motorists posing in National car in front of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in 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."

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Creator:: Spooner & Wells
Resource ID:: na030641
Subject:: Automobiles--New York (State)--New York; National Motor Vehicle Company; Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower (New York, N.Y.); Automobiles--Tires--Testing; Automobile travel--Middle Atlantic States; Photographers--New York (State)--New York; Photographic prints
Date:: 1913-04-02
Format:: 1 photographic print ; 6.5 x 4.5 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.