Mayor Philip Breitmeyer posing with E-M-F automobile, 1909 Glidden pathfinding expedition

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Description

View of Detroit Mayor Philip Breitmeyer posing with E-M-F car, surrounded by crowd, at start of the pathfinding expedition for the 1909 Glidden Tour. Starter's cannon in foreground. Handwritten on back: "1909 Glidden Tour, Detroit to Denver, Mayor Breitmeyer, Detroit, fires the starting gun. Tours--Glidden Tour Pathfinder, 1909."

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Resource ID:: na024456
Subject:: Breitmeyer, Philip, 1864-1941; Automobiles; E-M-F Company; Crowds; Glidden Tour (1909); Automobile travel; Photographic prints
Date:: 1909
Format:: 1 photographic print ; 8 x 10 in.
Department:: National Automotive History Collection
Collection:: Lazarnick Collection
Location:: Tours--Glidden Tour Pathfinder, 1909 #4
Copyright:: Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.