Two Glidden tourists waiting for start of the 1909 Glidden Tour, Detroit, Michigan
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Description
View of two tourists, or tour participants standing on sidewalk next to building (Pontchartrain Hotel?), and fire hose connection, dressed in motoring outfits, man in suit and straw hat leaning into photo, at the sixth annual Glidden Tour (i.e., Sixth Annual Reliability Run of the American Automobile Association), Detroit, Michigan, 1909. Stamped on back: "Spooner & Wells, Inc., photographers, telephones 3472-3473 Columbus, 1931 Broadway, New York."