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- Photograph Album, 1951 Glidden Tour - The original Glidden Tours, sponsored by AAA from 1904-1913, promoted both automobiles and road improvements. AAA and the Veteran Motor Car Club of America revived the annual tours in 1946 for owners of vintage automobiles. This time, the focus was more on pleasure than promotion. Participants often dressed in period costume, and they staged impromptu car shows along the way.
- September 01, 1951
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Photograph Album, 1951 Glidden Tour
The original Glidden Tours, sponsored by AAA from 1904-1913, promoted both automobiles and road improvements. AAA and the Veteran Motor Car Club of America revived the annual tours in 1946 for owners of vintage automobiles. This time, the focus was more on pleasure than promotion. Participants often dressed in period costume, and they staged impromptu car shows along the way.
- Glidden Tour 1908 Pathfinder Automobile and Horse-Drawn Road Oiling Tank - In this 1908 photograph, the driver of the Automobile Association of America's (AAA) Official Glidden Tour Pathfinder vehicle talks to a construction worker on the back of a road-oiling tank. The AAA organized Glidden Tours from 1904 through 1913. These grueling endurance runs of several hundred miles brought attention to the poor condition of American roads.
- 1908
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Glidden Tour 1908 Pathfinder Automobile and Horse-Drawn Road Oiling Tank
In this 1908 photograph, the driver of the Automobile Association of America's (AAA) Official Glidden Tour Pathfinder vehicle talks to a construction worker on the back of a road-oiling tank. The AAA organized Glidden Tours from 1904 through 1913. These grueling endurance runs of several hundred miles brought attention to the poor condition of American roads.
- 1927 or 1928 Mercedes Benz S-Type Sportwagen at Glidden Tour, Long Island, New York, September 1964 - The original Glidden Tours, sponsored by AAA from 1904-1913, promoted both automobiles and road improvements. AAA and the Veteran Motor Car Club of America revived the annual tours in 1946 for owners of vintage automobiles. This time, the focus was more on pleasure than promotion. Participants often dressed in period costume, and they staged impromptu car shows along the way.
- September 22, 1964
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1927 or 1928 Mercedes Benz S-Type Sportwagen at Glidden Tour, Long Island, New York, September 1964
The original Glidden Tours, sponsored by AAA from 1904-1913, promoted both automobiles and road improvements. AAA and the Veteran Motor Car Club of America revived the annual tours in 1946 for owners of vintage automobiles. This time, the focus was more on pleasure than promotion. Participants often dressed in period costume, and they staged impromptu car shows along the way.
- Removing an Automobile Stuck in a Muddy Road, Glidden Tour, circa 1910 - This photograph from 1910 shows the Automobile Association of America's (AAA) Official Glidden Tour Pathfinder vehicle stuck in the mud. The AAA organized Glidden Tours from 1904 through 1913. These grueling endurance runs of several hundred miles brought attention to the poor condition of American roads.
- circa 1910
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Removing an Automobile Stuck in a Muddy Road, Glidden Tour, circa 1910
This photograph from 1910 shows the Automobile Association of America's (AAA) Official Glidden Tour Pathfinder vehicle stuck in the mud. The AAA organized Glidden Tours from 1904 through 1913. These grueling endurance runs of several hundred miles brought attention to the poor condition of American roads.
- Program for the Fifth Annual Reliability Touring Contest, or Glidden Tour, 1908 - In the early twentieth century, endurance contests demonstrated to a wary public that cars were not just playthings for the wealthy, but practical tools that could perform under challenging conditions. Between 1904 and 1913, the newly formed American Automobile Association organized an annual "reliability touring contest" called the Glidden Tour. This program is from the fifth Glidden Tour, held in 1908.
- 09 July 1908-22 July 1908
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Program for the Fifth Annual Reliability Touring Contest, or Glidden Tour, 1908
In the early twentieth century, endurance contests demonstrated to a wary public that cars were not just playthings for the wealthy, but practical tools that could perform under challenging conditions. Between 1904 and 1913, the newly formed American Automobile Association organized an annual "reliability touring contest" called the Glidden Tour. This program is from the fifth Glidden Tour, held in 1908.
- 1912 or 1914 Simplex Automobile Participating in 1951 Glidden Tour - The original Glidden Tours, sponsored by AAA from 1904-1913, promoted both automobiles and road improvements. AAA and the Veteran Motor Car Club of America revived the annual tours in 1946 for owners of vintage automobiles. This time, the focus was more on pleasure than promotion. Participants often dressed in period costume, and they staged impromptu car shows along the way.
- September 01, 1951
- Collections - Artifact
1912 or 1914 Simplex Automobile Participating in 1951 Glidden Tour
The original Glidden Tours, sponsored by AAA from 1904-1913, promoted both automobiles and road improvements. AAA and the Veteran Motor Car Club of America revived the annual tours in 1946 for owners of vintage automobiles. This time, the focus was more on pleasure than promotion. Participants often dressed in period costume, and they staged impromptu car shows along the way.
- Henry Austin Clark, Jr. Cranking a 1907 Locomobile Car on the Glidden Tour, 1957 - Henry Austin Clark, Jr., purchased his first vintage automobile while in college. By the late 1970s he'd collected more than 200 cars, trucks and firefighting vehicles. Many were displayed in the Long Island Automotive Museum, which Clark operated from 1948 to 1980. Clark also collected hundreds of thousands of photographs, publications and advertisements related to automotive history.
- 1957
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Henry Austin Clark, Jr. Cranking a 1907 Locomobile Car on the Glidden Tour, 1957
Henry Austin Clark, Jr., purchased his first vintage automobile while in college. By the late 1970s he'd collected more than 200 cars, trucks and firefighting vehicles. Many were displayed in the Long Island Automotive Museum, which Clark operated from 1948 to 1980. Clark also collected hundreds of thousands of photographs, publications and advertisements related to automotive history.
- Advertising Poster for Metz Automobiles, "Metz '22,' Winner of the Glidden Tour," 1913 - The Metz Company operated in Waltham, Massachusetts, circa 1909 to 1921. Its first automobiles were inexpensive kit cars purchased by customers -- and shipped to them -- in installments. Metz shifted to fully assembled vehicles in 1911. Two years later, Metz Model 22 cars won the Glidden Tour, a reliability and endurance competition sponsored by the American Automobile Association.
- 1913
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Advertising Poster for Metz Automobiles, "Metz '22,' Winner of the Glidden Tour," 1913
The Metz Company operated in Waltham, Massachusetts, circa 1909 to 1921. Its first automobiles were inexpensive kit cars purchased by customers -- and shipped to them -- in installments. Metz shifted to fully assembled vehicles in 1911. Two years later, Metz Model 22 cars won the Glidden Tour, a reliability and endurance competition sponsored by the American Automobile Association.
- 1933 Duesenberg Automobile Participating in Glidden Tour, September 1951 - The original Glidden Tours, sponsored by AAA from 1904-1913, promoted both automobiles and road improvements. AAA and the Veteran Motor Car Club of America revived the annual tours in 1946 for owners of vintage automobiles. This time, the focus was more on pleasure than promotion. Participants often dressed in period costume, and they staged impromptu car shows along the way.
- September 01, 1951
- Collections - Artifact
1933 Duesenberg Automobile Participating in Glidden Tour, September 1951
The original Glidden Tours, sponsored by AAA from 1904-1913, promoted both automobiles and road improvements. AAA and the Veteran Motor Car Club of America revived the annual tours in 1946 for owners of vintage automobiles. This time, the focus was more on pleasure than promotion. Participants often dressed in period costume, and they staged impromptu car shows along the way.
- 1912 or 1914 Simplex Automobile Participating in 1951 Glidden Tour - The original Glidden Tours, sponsored by AAA from 1904-1913, promoted both automobiles and road improvements. AAA and the Veteran Motor Car Club of America revived the annual tours in 1946 for owners of vintage automobiles. This time, the focus was more on pleasure than promotion. Participants often dressed in period costume, and they staged impromptu car shows along the way.
- September 01, 1951
- Collections - Artifact
1912 or 1914 Simplex Automobile Participating in 1951 Glidden Tour
The original Glidden Tours, sponsored by AAA from 1904-1913, promoted both automobiles and road improvements. AAA and the Veteran Motor Car Club of America revived the annual tours in 1946 for owners of vintage automobiles. This time, the focus was more on pleasure than promotion. Participants often dressed in period costume, and they staged impromptu car shows along the way.