W.O. Westgard and others posing with Flanders automobile, Detroit, Michigan, 1912 Glidden pathfinding expedition

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Description

View of W.O. Westgard, F. Ed. Spooner, Hazel Flanders and others posing with Flanders electric car in Detroit, Michigan, at the start of 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. Stamped on back: "Spooner & Wells, Inc., photographers, 1231 Woodward Ave., Detroit, Mich., telephone North 1745." Handwritten on back: "Pathfinders starting on trip to New Orleans (leaving Detroit)."

Details

Creator:: Spooner & Wells
Resource ID:: na044177
Subject:: Electric automobiles--Michigan--Detroit; Flanders Manufacturing Company; 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.