Flanders automobile passing phosphate mill, Sandy Hook, Tennessee, 1912 Glidden pathfinding expedition

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Description

View of Flanders electric car passing a phosphate mill at Sandy Hook, 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 passes phosphate mill, Sandy Hook, Tenn., 1912."

Details
Creator:
Spooner & Wells
Resource ID:
na044224
Subject:
Electric automobiles--Tennessee--Sandy Hook
Flanders Manufacturing Company
Phosphate industry--Tennessee--Sandy Hook
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.