Baroness Alice Stael von Holstein in 1940 Lincoln Zephyr at New York World's Fair, 1940
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Swedish baroness Alice Stael von Holstein sits behind the wheel of a 1940 Lincoln-Zephyr Continental Cabriolet in the Garden Court of Ford Motor Company's exposition building at the New York World's Fair. The visiting baroness, who belonged to the Royal Auto Club of Sweden and had driven through most of Europe, was considered Sweden's leading female driver.
Swedish baroness Alice Stael von Holstein sits behind the wheel of a 1940 Lincoln-Zephyr Continental Cabriolet in the Garden Court of Ford Motor Company's exposition building at the New York World's Fair. The visiting baroness, who belonged to the Royal Auto Club of Sweden and had driven through most of Europe, was considered Sweden's leading female driver.
Artifact
Photographic print
Date Made
1940
Subject Date
1940
Keywords
United States, New York, New York
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
64.167.232.12
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.
Material
Linen (Material)
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 7.875 in
Width: 11 in
Inscriptions
Handwritten in pencil on back on upper right hand corner: 2539 Typed sheet of paper adhered to back of image reads: IT'S A LINCOLN-ZEPHYR FOR SWEDEN'S LEADING WOMAN DRIVER / World-traveler and top-ranking woman driver in Sweden, Baroness / Alice Stael von Holstein of Stockholm, is shown here behind the wheel of / a Lincoln-Zephyr continental cabriolet in beautiful Garden Court at the / World's Fair Ford Exposition. "It's the finest car I've ever seen," she / said, "and if war conditions hadn't necessitiated my flying back, I would / certainly return to Sweden with a Lincoln-Zephyr," Baroness Stael von / Holstein is a member of the Royal Auto Club of Sweden, says she has driven / Fords over most of the European Continent. She has never driven anything / but a Ford; her latest car, a 1937 club convertible, has crossed the borders / of all the European countries now at war. It has taken in its stride / two dangerous passes in the Swiss Alps in the space of three hours; bridges / in northern Norway so narrow it was necessary to stop and measure them / before proceeding; the most primitive roads and the most modern -- / the fine, four-lane German express highways. The present war, she said, has interrupted / her plans to take her Ford on a tour of South Africa and / perhaps to Tibet. She had been spending a month in the United States, / left June 21 on the Atlantic Clipper for Lisbon. Baroness Stael von Holstein / says she'll "settle down in Portugal and write a book" if she runs into / difficulties in getting back to Sweden, once she lands in Lisbon.
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