Roberta Marks and passengers in Columbia automobile, 1911 Glidden Tour
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Description
View of Roberta "Birdie" Marks in Columbia car no. 49 with three women passengers during the 1911 Glidden Tour. Policemen on horseback in background. Marks was the only woman driver in the Tour. Stamped on back: "Spooner & Wells, Inc., photographers, telephones 3472-3473 Columbus, 1931 Broadway, New York." Handwritten on back: "Columbia, Glidden, 1911."
Details
- Creator:
- Spooner & Wells
- Resource ID:
- na043342
- Subject:
- Automobiles
- Columbia Motor Car Company
- Women automobile drivers
- Mounted police
- Glidden Tour (1911)
- Automobile driving--Competitions--United States
- Photographers--New York (State)--New York
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- 1911-10
- Format:
- 1 photographic print ; 5 x 8 in.
- Department:
- National Automotive History Collection
- Collection:
- Lazarnick Collection
- Location:
- General photograph files, Columbia (Connecticut), 1910-1912
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.