Figure 3.Man sitting in Hayne’s open-air automobile, California (ca1900)

Source:[USC Digital Library , accession number 3754]

Photograph of a man sitting in Hayne’s open-air automobile, California, ca.1900. This is America’s oldest automobile. It was built by Elwood Haynes of Kokomo, Indiana, and was exhibited in Chicago in 1895 and chased off the streets by the police (according to Scribner’s Popular History of American Inventions).
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15799coll65/id/11108/rec/1

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