Morris & Salom's Electrobat automobile, 1895 Chicago Times-Herald Race
Description:
View of Morris and Salom's Electrobat automobile at the start of the 1895 Chicago Times-Herald Race. Spectators in background. Typed on back: "Subject: Races & racing--Chicago Times Herald. Collection: MS3/Charles E. Duryea Collection. Date: Nov. 28, 1895. Source: Estate of Charles E. & M. Jerry Duryea. I.D.: Number eighteen, Morris and Salom, sponsor 926 Drexel Building, Philadelphia. Model: Electrobat. Pedro G. Salom, electrician. Seated in car: Henry Morris, mechanical engineer, and driver Hiram P. Maxim, umpire. Photo shows beginning of race running at 3 m.p.h." Advertisement for American Machinist magazine printed on back. Handwritten on back: "Morris & Salom, start Nov. 28, '95."
