Stilt walker surrounded by crowd of men and boys

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Description

View of stilt walker, wearing a top hat and suit, surrounded by crowd of men and boys in front of the Hotel Fowler in Detroit. Boy in foreground stands with bicycle. Advertisement on back of stilt walker's coat reads: "$1 secures a lot [undecipherable] Park, take Jefferson Ave., cars to car barn, and take free sight seeing auto, tickets at La Fond's cigar stores, 406 Penobscot Bldg." Handwritten on back: "Streets--Detroit, 1910."

Details

Resource ID:: na019123
Subject:: Stilt-walkers--Michigan--Detroit; Boys--Michigan--Detroit; Photographic prints
Date:: 1910
Format:: 1 photographic print ; 5 x 6.5 in.
Department:: National Automotive History Collection
Collection:: Lazarnick Collection
Location:: Streets--Detroit, 1910-1911
Copyright:: Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.