Duryea Automobile

ID: 91-3698

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Form/Genre: Photographic print

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Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 95 Box 41 Folder 1

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Summary

Duryea Automobile, 1893-1894. Built by the Duryea brothers, Charles E. and J. Frank in Springfield, Massachusetts. It was operated on the streets there in 1893 with a friction drive and in 1894 with the present transmission. This is considered by many as the first American automobile.

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Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

Also featured in True, THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Smithsonian Scientific Series I, 1929, plate 18. Another image can be found in Widder, Robert B., A PICTORAL TREASURY OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1966, p.

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Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 95 Box 41 Folder 1

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

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Topic

  • Duryea automobile
  • Exhibitions
  • Gifts
  • Automobiles
  • Duryea Automobile
  • Duryea, Charles E
  • Duryea, J. Frank

Form/Genre

  • Photographic print
  • Object

ID Number

91-3698

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Object; Medium: Photographic print

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