Duesenberg, Pike’s Peak, Colorado

With the 89th Pike’s Peak International Hill Climb this weekend (as well as Mount Washington’s revived Climb to the Clouds), we thought we’d go looking for some vintage photography from Pike’s Peak, and we thought the most natural place to find such photography would be in the Denver Public Library’s digital collections. However, we only came across one shot of a race car – the No. 12 Duesenberg – climbing the mountain, captured by Harry Mellon Rhoads, and it appears to have not been shot during competition. Nor does the photograph come with any caption information, so we’re left wondering who’s piloting the Duesenberg and when the shot was taken.