Flanders automobile crossing creek near Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, 1912 Glidden pathfinding expedition

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Description

View of Flanders electric car crossing a stream near Lawrenceburg, Tennessee 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. Stamped on back: "Spooner & Wells, Inc., photographers, 1231 Woodward Ave., Detroit, Mich., telephone North 1745." Handwritten on back: "Pathfinder encounters eighteen inch deep ford, near Lawrenceburg, Tenn., 1912."

Details

Creator:: Spooner & Wells
Resource ID:: na044216
Subject:: Electric automobiles--Tennessee; Flanders Manufacturing Company; Rivers--Tennessee; 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.