New York-to-Paris Auto Race recipient-men an illustrator based in Brooklyn

an illustrator based in Brooklyn

Orville and then Wilbur

"Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country

"The Tumultuous Fifties

New York-to-Paris Auto Race recipient-men an illustrator based in BrooklynSix automobiles leave Times Square on February 12, 1908, for a 20,000 mile race to Paris sponsored by The New York Times. The route was established in three stages, with cars to be shipped by steamer from San Francisco to Seattle, then driven through Alaska and across the Bering Strait to Siberia for a home run toward Paris. The Americans reached Alaska first, but that route was declared impassable. Instead the contestants agreed to an alternate route