Motorists posing in Chalmers automobile, Raleigh, North Carolina, 1911 Touring Club of America Good Roads Tour

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Description

View of motorists posing in Chalmers car no. 1 under electric sign at Raleigh, North Carolina during the 1911 Good Roads Tour sponsored by the Touring Club of America. Sign reads: "Welcome to Raleigh." Commercial buildings in background. The tour covered a route from Atlanta, Georgia to Richmond, Virginia. Stamped on back: "Spooner & Wells, Inc., photographers, telephones 3472-3473 Columbus, 1931 Broadway, New York." Handwritten on back: "Tours--Touring Club of America tour, 1911."

Details

Creator:: Spooner & Wells
Resource ID:: na031109
Subject:: Electric signs--North Carolina--Raleigh; Automobiles--North Carolina--Raleigh; Chalmers Motor Company; Automobile travel--South Atlantic States; Photographers--New York (State)--New York; Photographic prints
Date:: 1911
Format:: 1 photographic print ; 5 x 7 in.
Department:: National Automotive History Collection
Collection:: Lazarnick Collection
Location:: Tours--Touring Club of America tour, 1911, #2
Negative Number:: Negative #C27,551
Copyright:: Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.