Spectators watching airplane at aviation exhibition, Michigan State Fairgrounds
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View of spectators watching airplane at aviation exhibition, Michigan State Fairgrounds. 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. Archie Hoxsey." 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."
