Crowd viewing airplane in flight at aviation exhibition, Michigan State Fairgrounds
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Description
View of crowd viewing airplane in flight at aviation exhibition, Michigan State Fairgrounds. Reviewing stand and grandstand on right. Stamped on back: "Spooner & Wells, Inc., photographers, telephone North 1745. 1231 Woodward Ave., Detroit, Mich. Detroit, 1231 Woodward, New York, 1931 Broadway." Handwritten on back: "Airplane racing--Michigan State Fairgrounds, Detroit, Mi., 1910." Label on file: "Aviation racing, 1910. The first showing of an airplane in Detroit took place July 14, 1910. It was not a race it was simply a demonstration by Arch Hoxey [sic] in what appears to be an early model Wright airplane at the Detroit Fair Grounds."
Details
- Creator:
- Spooner & Wells
- Resource ID:
- na003210
- Subject:
- Airplanes
- Grandstands--Michigan--Detroit
- Air shows--Michigan--Detroit
- Photographers--Michigan--Detroit
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- 1910-07-14
- Format:
- 1 photographic print ; 5 x 7 in.
- Department:
- National Automotive History Collection
- Collection:
- Lazarnick Collection
- Location:
- Airplane racing--Michigan State Fairgrounds, 1910
- Negative Number:
- Negative #C14,099
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.