On April 7, 1916, a photograph was taken of two women — identified in the archival record as Mrs. Alice Burke and Nell Richardson — standing with an automobile called the Golden Flyer. According to the record, the two were preparing to drive it from New York to San Francisco.
That's the extent of what this specific photograph and its caption establish. We don't know from this record alone how the drive went, what stops they made, or how it was received — those are separate historical questions that would need their own sourcing before we could responsibly write about them.
What the image does capture is a specific, dated moment: two named women, a car with a name, and a stated intention to drive it from New York to San Francisco. It's a small, precise window into early 20th-century automotive travel — worth preserving as exactly that, rather than dressed up with details this record doesn't provide.
Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, "Suffragettes - Mrs. Alice Burke and Nell Richardson in the suffrage automobile 'Golden Flyer' in which they will drive from New York to San Francisco," April 7, 1916 (loc.gov/pictures/item/2001704319/). Photograph not reproduced here — rights status is a reuse candidate pending separate review, not yet cleared for use on this site.