Motorists with automobiles parked in front of Minuteman monument at Concord, Massachusetts, 1908 Glidden Tour

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Description

View of motorists with two cars parked in front of Minuteman monument at Concord, Massachusetts during the 1908 Glidden Tour. Statue was designed by Daniel Chester French. Inscription, by Ralph Waldo Emerson, reads: "By the rude bridge that arched the flood, their flag to April's breeze unfurled, here once the embattled farmers stood, and fired the shot heard round the world." Handwritten on back: "Tours--Glidden Tour, 1908."

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Resource ID:: na023827
Subject:: Minutemen (Militia)--Monuments--Massachusetts--Concord; Automobiles--Massachusetts--Concord; French, Daniel Chester, 1850-1931; Glidden Tour (1908); Automobile driving--Competitions--United States; Photographic prints
Date:: 1908-07
Format:: 1 photographic print ; 4.5 x 6.75 in.
Department:: National Automotive History Collection
Collection:: Lazarnick Collection
Location:: Tours--Glidden Tour, 1908 #33
Negative Number:: Negative #C21,277
Copyright:: Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.