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Title
1940 convertible Packard with Wendell Wilkie
Creator
Packard Motor Car Company

Institution
Detroit Public Library

Subject
Packard automobile--History

Subject
Willkie, Wendell L. (Wendell Lewis), 1892-1944

Subject
Parades

Item Number
EB01e182

Type
image

Format
jpeg

Description
8x10 black and white Packard Co. file photograph of a 1940 Packard front view. top folded, policemen and crowd surrounding car, man standing in tonneau shaking hands with people. Inscribed on photo back: Packard one sixty, super eight, eighteenth series, model 1803, 8-cylinder, 160-horsepower, 127-inch wheelbase, convertible, Packard approved accessories; pelican emblem, radio, optional equipment; white sidewall tires, Wendell Wilkie, 1940 Iowa license plate #77-38765.

1940 convertible Packard with Wendell Wilkie

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