Thomas Edison in Baker electric runabout
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Description
View of Thomas Edison and his wife, Mina, posing in a Baker electric runabout. Label on back: "From Gordon Bowman. The Baker-Raulang Company, Baker Industrial Truck Division, 1230 West 80th Street, Cleveland 2, Ohio. Olympic 1-3000. July 25, 1953. Thomas A. Edison, shown here in one of Walter Baker's first electric runabouts, worked closely with Baker on the development of the battery-powered auto and supplied the batteries for early models." Typed on back: "Baker electric."
Details
- Creator:
- Heiser Company
- Resource ID:
- na041102
- Subject:
- Electric automobiles
- Baker Motor Vehicle Company
- Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931
- Edison, Mina Miller, 1865-1947
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- unknown
- Format:
- 1 photographic print ; 8 x 10 in.
- Department:
- National Automotive History Collection
- Location:
- Baker
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.