Morris & Salom's Electrobat automobile, 1895 Chicago Times-Herald Race
Grab
Description
View of Morris and Salom's Electrobat automobile at the start of the 1895 Chicago Times-Herald Race. Spectators in background. Typed on back: "Subject: Races & racing--Chicago Times Herald. Collection: MS3/Charles E. Duryea Collection. Date: Nov. 28, 1895. Source: Estate of Charles E. & M. Jerry Duryea. I.D.: Number eighteen, Morris and Salom, sponsor 926 Drexel Building, Philadelphia. Model: Electrobat. Pedro G. Salom, electrician. Seated in car: Henry Morris, mechanical engineer, and driver Hiram P. Maxim, umpire. Photo shows beginning of race running at 3 m.p.h." Advertisement for American Machinist magazine printed on back. Handwritten on back: "Morris & Salom, start Nov. 28, '95."
Details
- Resource ID:
- na040701
- Subject:
- Electric automobiles
- Chicago Times-Herald Race (1895)
- Automobile racing--Illinois
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- 1895-11-28
- Format:
- 1 photographic print mounted on mat board ; image 4 x 4.75 in.
- Department:
- National Automotive History Collection
- Location:
- MS3/Charles E. Duryea collection, Folder 49, Races & racing--Chicago Times-Herald
- Negative Number:
- MS3/373
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.