Motorist posing in 1907 Babcock electric automobile in front of Stearns billboard

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Description

View of motorist posing in a 1907 Babcock electric car in front of a billboard advertising Stearns automobiles. O.J. Gude Co. billboard reads: "The Stearns will make this hill in minutes at the rate of miles per hour. For sale by Wyckoff, Church & Partridge. Broadway at 56th St." Handwritten on back: "Babcock el., '07."

Details

Creator:: Spooner & Wells
Resource ID:: na041727
Subject:: Electric automobiles; Babcock Electric Carriage Company; Billboards; Advertising--Automobiles; Photographers--New York (State)--New York; Photographic prints
Date:: unknown
Format:: 1 photographic print ; 7.25 x 9.5 in.
Department:: National Automotive History Collection
Collection:: Lazarnick Collection
Location:: General photograph files, Babcock Electric
Copyright:: Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.