Jonathan D. Maxwell Driving a Curved-Dash Oldsmobile on Rough Terrain, circa 1901
THF120800 / Jonathan D. Maxwell Driving a Curved-Dash Oldsmobile on Rough Terrain, circa 1901
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Artifact Overview
With its one-cylinder engine and horseless-carriage looks, the Oldsmobile Curved Dash didn't seem particularly rugged. Olds Motor Works proved the runabout's mettle through elaborate stunts. Here the car is driven up a steep hill, over uneven ground. Far more extravagant was Roy D. Chapin's 820-mile drive, from Detroit to New York, in an Oldsmobile in 1901.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
circa 1901
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
P.B.13070
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 8.25 in
Width: 10 in
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Detroit contractor Albert Albrecht posed in a 1902 Oldsmobile circa 1920. Twenty years after its debut, the Curved Dash Olds was an antique with its tiller steering, chain drive and 4.5-horsepower engine hopelessly out of date. But the affordable Curved Dash had pointed toward a day when automobile ownership would be commonplace -- a day that had arrived by 1920.