F.A. Tauscher in his custom built “Stutz,” the body of which is his own design. Photo Nos. 537 & 438. . . [ Two large images printed next to each other as a very large panoramic photograph depicting side and three-quarter views of this splendid Stutz with coachwork designed by Tauscher].

Portland, OR: [Theodore Mentzer], Photographer, [ca. 1925]. Two images printed on one large silver gelatin panoramic photograph, sized 40 x 16 in., archivally mounted on foam core, and framed, with remarkable strong and bright contrast. A remarkable pair of photographs forming a large panoramic image of what appears to be a custom coach body on a 1925 Stutz Bearcat by noted Portland motoring enthusiast and auto racer, Frank Tauscher. The first view is a side view showing the 2-seat convertible fitted with wire wheels, and Continental spare wheel package, side-by-side with the second three-quarter view showing the front grill license plate and Stutz badging. Tauscher (1879-1939) was an Austrian-American wood carver who first began working for the predecessor to Doernbecher’s Furniture Company in 1890, and would continue working for the company through his entire career, and began racing automobiles as early as 1913 in a Cole winning the Inner-City Century Trophy, July 5 in the Tacoma Road Races. He received stock, operated as John Doernbecher’s shipping and warehouse superintendent, as well as designer, and supervisor of the finishing operations. Mentzer (1893-1953), was a photographer in Tacoma, WA and during World War I served with the American Expeditionary Force in France, sailing on the RMS Olympic to Europe in March, 1919, and finally returning back to the United States on the SS Rotterdam arriving in New York on Jan. 28, 1920. He was stationed at Fort Lewis until the early 1920s, before setting up a studio in Portland, OR through the 1930s, and following the Great Depression worked for the Oregon Ship Building Corporation in Portland, OR. No copies located in institutional holdings; See: Doernbecher Manufacturing Company, Petitioner, v. IRS, June 21, 1934, pp. 979-982; Homely Happenings in the Hudson Family, The Hudson Triangle, Vol. VII, No. 27 (1918), p. 4; Tacoma Road Races, The Automobile Journal, Vol. 35, (1913), p. 69.