Motorists in automobiles at Washington, D.C., 1909 Harrisburg Endurance Run
Description:
View of motorists in cars parked side by side in street at Washington, D.C. during the 1909 Harrisburg Endurance Run. Seaboard Air Line Railway ticket office and Coldenstroth's hotel and restaurant in background. Sponsored by the Motor Club of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the reliability contest covered routes through Maryland, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C. Stamped on back: "Spooner & Wells, Inc., photographers, telephones 3472-3473 Columbus, 1931 Broadway, New York." Handwritten on back: "Tours--Harrisburg Endurance Run, 1909."