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View of three automobiles, the first of which is identified as number 52, competing in a Glidden auto tour, on a street in Dorrance, Russell County, Kansas. The Glidden auto tours were timed, long distance road rallies organized from 1902-1913 throughout the United States by the American Automobile Association (AAA) as a means of encouraging automotive travel and the development of safe roads. Also visible in the photograph are spectators, horse-drawn wagons and a carriage in front of Lindenmeyer's General Merchandise store, utility poles and power lines, windmills, and the buildings and businesses along the city street.
Creator: Halbe, L. W. (Leslie Winfield), 1893-1981
Date: July 29, 1909
Item Number: 1466
Call Number: Halbe Coll. No. 122
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 1466
Collections - Photograph - Halbe, L. W. (photographer)
Community Life - Recreation and Sports - Leisure activities - Travel
Date - 1900s - 1909
Home and Family - Activities - Vacations - Car trips
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph - Dry plate glass negatives
Objects and Artifacts - Distribution & Transportation Artifacts - Land Transportation, Animal-Powered - Motorized - Automobile
Places - Cities and towns - Dorrance
Places - Counties - Russell
Thematic Time Period - Industrialization and the National Economy, 1870 - 1920
Transportation - Automobiles
Type of Material - Photographs - Format - Dry plate glass negatives
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