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Planning motor car expedition across Asia. Georges-Marie Haardt of Paris will head a scientific party which will start shortly on an expedition which will cover 13,500 miles in Asia, including previously unexplored sections. The expedition will travel in special caterpillar-drive equipped motor cars. Haardt came to Washington to complete arrangements for the National Geographic Society to participate in the project. In the photograph, left to right: Dr. John Oliver La Gorce, vice president of the Society; Haardt; Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor, president of the Society, and Maynard Owen Williams, the Society's correspondent who will accompany the expedition, 12/3/30

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Planning motor car expedition across Asia. Georges-Marie Haardt of Paris will head a scientific party which will start shortly on an expedition which will cover 13,500 miles in Asia, including previously unexplored sections. The expedition will travel in special caterpillar-drive equipped motor cars. Haardt came to Washington to complete arrangements for the National Geographic Society to participate in the project. In the photograph, left to right: Dr. John Oliver La Gorce, vice president of the Society; Haardt; Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor, president of the Society, and Maynard Owen Williams, the Society's correspondent who will accompany the expedition, 12/3/30

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1930
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States38.90719, -77.03687
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