Flanders automobile near Seymour, Indiana, 1912 Glidden pathfinding expedition
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Description
View of Flanders electric car on rural dirt road near Seymour, Indiana during the pathfinding expedition for the 1912 Glidden Tour, followed by motorists in cars. The pathfinding tour covered a route from Detroit, Michigan to New Orleans, Louisiana, but the 1912 Glidden Tour was canceled. Stamped on back: "Spooner & Wells, Inc., photographers, 1231 Woodward Ave., Detroit, Mich., telephone North 1745." Handwritten on back: "First puncture, 509 miles, near Seymour, 1912."
Details
- Creator:
- Spooner & Wells
- Resource ID:
- na044121
- Subject:
- Electric automobiles--Indiana
- Flanders Manufacturing Company
- Dirt roads--Indiana
- Glidden Tour (1912)
- Automobile travel--United States
- Photographers--Michigan--Detroit
- 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.