Flanders automobile passing horse-drawn carriage on road near Detroit, 1912 Glidden pathfinding expedition

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Description

View of Flanders electric car passing a horse-drawn buggy on rural dirt road near Detroit, Michigan, during the pathfinding expedition for the 1912 Glidden Tour. The pathfinding tour covered a route from Detroit, Michigan to New Orleans, Louisiana, but the 1912 Glidden Tour was canceled. Handwritten on back: "Pathfinder on its way to New Orleans, 1912. Just out of Detroit."

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Resource ID:: na043995
Subject:: Electric automobiles--Michigan; Flanders Manufacturing Company; Horse-drawn vehicles--Michigan; Rural roads--Michigan; Glidden Tour (1912); Automobile travel--United States; Photographic prints
Date:: 1912
Format:: 1 photographic print ; 4.5 x 6.5 in.
Department:: National Automotive History Collection
Collection:: Lazarnick Collection
Location:: General photograph files, Flanders electric (Pathfinder tour, 1912)
Copyright:: Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.