Dwight B. Huss Driving Oldsmobile "Old Scout" on Cross-Continental Tour, May-June 1905
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Artifact Overview
In 1905, two Oldsmobiles competed in an east to west transcontinental race from New York City to Portland, Oregon. In this photograph Dwight B. Huss navigates "Old Scout" through Iowa's flooded Skunk River. Old Scout won the race over his competitor "Old Steady" reaching Portland in forty-four days.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
May 1905-June 1905
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
2010.0.12.17
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 8 in
Width: 10 in
Inscriptions
Typed on sheet of paper adhered to top back of image:
Miles and miles of road like this were encountered by "Old Scout" / in the flooded Skunk River bottoms in Western Iowa.
Handwritten in pencil on lower back of image:
Where a creek bottom was the only / roadway-- Dwight B. Huss and "Old / Scout" on a typical situation on their / cross continent tour May - June, 1905
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