Commercial building with Marquette Buick sign
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Description
View of four-story Italianate building on corner; sign on building reads: "Marquette Buick driven by Robert Burman. Champion American speed & endurance car defeated all American cars in world's greatest road race. Savannah grand prize averaging 67 7/10 miles per hour for 415 2/10 miles. Defeated cars, 2 Loziers, 2 Marmons, Alco, 2 Pope Hartfords & 3 Fiats. Herald says, it was the best showing ever made by an American built machine in a race of such importance. Duplicates $3950." Stamped on back: "Spooner & Wells, Inc., photographers, telephones 3472-3473 Columbus, 1931 Broadway, New York." Handwritten on back: "Architecture--Domestic, 1910."
Details
- Creator:
- Spooner & Wells
- Resource ID:
- na003525
- Subject:
- Commercial buildings
- Advertising--Automobiles
- Signs and signboards
- Buick automobile
- Photographers--New York (State)--New York
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- 1910
- Format:
- 1 photographic print ; 7.75 x 9.5 in.
- Department:
- National Automotive History Collection
- Collection:
- Lazarnick Collection
- Location:
- Architecture--Domestic #8
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.