[Detroit Electric" auto on promotional tour through mountains from "Seattle to Mt. Rainier": Man standing in front of auto which is parked on mountain road]" – Antique Wall Art
![[Detroit Electric" auto on promotional tour through mountains from "Seattle to Mt. Rainier": Man standing in front of auto which is parked on mountain road]", c1919. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/01/016aee3294cf-L.webp)
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A window into the past: [Detroit Electric" auto on promotional tour through mountains from "Seattle to Mt. Rainier": Man standing in front of auto which is parked on mountain road]", preserved in this historic photograph. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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[Detroit Electric" auto on promotional tour through mountains from "Seattle to Mt. Rainier": Man standing in front of auto which is parked on mountain road]"
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A Detroit Electric, the battery-powered car made in Detroit, sits on a mountain road near Mount Rainier in Washington, with a man standing beside it on what the caption describes as a promotional tour from Seattle. Electric cars of this period were marketed as quiet, clean and easy to start, and taking one over steep grades was a public way to test those claims. Battery range was limited, so a trip like this depended as much on planning as on the car itself. The photoprint was issued by Cress-Dale Photo Co. and is dated to about 1919 on its caption card, a date not independently verified.
| Created / published | c1919. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | Photoprint copyrighted by Cress-Dale Photo Co. No. 191467. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Adv.; Electricity; Autos--1919; Geogr. |
| Original scan | 1,198 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-143839 |
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