Motorists with Detroit Electric automobile, 1911 Electric Suburbaning Contest
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Description
View of motorists with Detroit Electric car no. 4 during the 1911 Electric Suburbaning Contest on Long Island, New York. Sponsored by the Electric Automobile Dealers' Association of New York City, the contest highlighted the advantages of the electric car for suburban use. Stamped on back: "Spooner & Wells, Inc., photographers, telephones 3472-3473 Columbus, 1931 Broadway, New York." Handwritten on back: "Detroit Electric, ca. 1911."
Details
- Creator:
- Spooner & Wells
- Resource ID:
- na043656
- Subject:
- Electric automobiles--New York (State)--Long Island
- Anderson Electric Car Company
- Anderson Carriage Company
- Electric automobiles--Competitions--New York (State)--Long Island
- Photographers--New York (State)--New York
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- 1911-06-14
- Format:
- 1 photographic print ; 5 x 7 in.
- Department:
- National Automotive History Collection
- Collection:
- Lazarnick Collection
- Location:
- General photograph files, Detroit Electric
- Negative Number:
- 15768 F-2
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.