View of two cars side by side in street, crowd lining street, U.S. flags protruding, at start of the Glidden Tour, Detroit, Michigan, July 12, 1909. Emulsion gone from spot in left corner, faded area in middle of image. Photo edges cut unevenly. Stamped on back: "Spooner & Wells, Inc., photographers, telephones 3472-3473 Columbus, 1931 Broadway, New York."