Flanders automobile near Seymour, Indiana, 1912 Glidden pathfinding expedition
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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."