Two participating cars ready for the start of the 1909 Glidden Tour automobile parade in Detroit

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Description

View of two participating cars, left side view, each has a driver and passenger, front car has #19 on rear side, with sign mounted on hood. Matson in #19 Chalmers, winner of the Indiana Trophy Race and Knipper in the Chalmers-Detroit pathfinding car from Denver to the City of Mexico, ready for the start in the automobile parade, July 10th, 1909. Stamped on back: "Spooner & Wells, Inc., photographers, telephones 3472-3473 Columbus, 1931 Broadway, New York."

Details

Creator:: Spooner & Wells
Resource ID:: EB01f016
Subject:: Glidden Tour (1909); Parades--Michigan--Detroit; Automobiles--Michigan--Detroit; Chalmers-Detroit Motor Company; Automobile drivers--Michigan--Detroit; Photographers--New York (State)--New York; Photographic prints
Date:: 1909-07-10
Format:: 1 photographic print ; 4.5 x 6.75 in.
Department:: National Automotive History Collection
Collection:: Lazarnick Collection
Location:: Tours--Glidden Tour, 1909
Negative Number:: Negative #C21,379
Copyright:: Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.