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

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