Group of men in front of the Hotel Pontchartrain for the start of the 1909 Glidden Tour, Detroit, Michigan

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Description

View of the front entrance of the Pontchartrain Hotel, downtown Detroit, decorated with United States flags and flowers, sign reads "Headquarters Glidden Tour, A.A.A. Frank B. Hower, Chairman Contest Board," crowd of men in front of hotel entrance. Caption on photo back: "F. B. Hower was his own best advertiser at the Pontchartrain Hotel."

Details

Resource ID:: EB01f013
Subject:: Glidden Tour (1909); Hotels--Michigan--Detroit; 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 #C22,396
Copyright:: Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.