Spectators surrounding Rapid truck in front of Pontchartrain Hotel, Detroit, 1910 Glidden Tour

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Description

Close-up view of motorists in Rapid truck, surrounded by spectators, in front of the Pontchartrain Hotel at Detroit, Michigan during the 1910 Glidden Tour. Sign on truck reads: "This Rapid truck climbed Pikes Peak, 15,000 feet above sea level covered Glidden Tours 1907, 1908, 1909." Handwritten on back: "Tours--Glidden Tour, 1910."

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Resource ID:: na024959
Subject:: Trucks--Michigan--Detroit; Rapid Motor Truck Company; Spectators--Michigan--Detroit; Glidden Tour (1910); Automobile driving--Competitions--United States; Photographic prints
Date:: 1910
Format:: 1 photographic print ; 4.5 x 6.25 in.
Department:: National Automotive History Collection
Collection:: Lazarnick Collection
Location:: Tours--Glidden Tour, 1910 #15
Negative Number:: Negative #C23,727
Copyright:: Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.