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[Detroit Electric" auto on promotional tour through mountains from "Seattle to Mt. Rainier": Mt. Ranier in background]" – Vintage Wall Art

[Detroit Electric" auto on promotional tour through mountains from "Seattle to Mt. Rainier": Mt. Ranier in background]", c1919. — historic photograph
[Detroit Electric" auto on promotional tour through mountains from "Seattle to Mt. Rainier": Mt. Ranier in background]", c1919.. Historic photograph from the Automobiles collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A Detroit Electric automobile is the subject here, shown on a promotional tour from Seattle with Mt. Rainier in the background. Detroit Electric cars came from the Anderson Carriage Company, which sold battery-powered runabouts as quiet, clean alternatives to gasoline models, particularly for city driving. Long-distance publicity trips like this one let makers show that electric cars could travel well beyond town, a claim worth viewing with some skepticism given the limited range of batteries at the time. The photograph is attributed to Cress-Dale Photo Co. and dated c1919 on an unverified caption card.

Created / publishedc1919.
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsPhotoprint 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.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,204 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-143838

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