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Title
1908 Packard 30 Model UA with driver Barney Oldfield and C. Arthur Benjamin
Creator
Packard Motor Car Company

Institution
Detroit Public Library

Subject
Packard automobile--History

Subject
Oldfield, Barney, 1878-1946

Subject
Automobile industry and trade--History

Item Number
EB01c213

Relation
NULL

Type
image

Format
jpeg

Description
8x10 black and white copied from a glass negative of a 1908 Packard 30 Model UA parked on city street with crowd of onlookers, in front of The Yates. Inscribed on photo back: 4-cylinder, 30-horsepower, 108-inch wheelbase, 2/3-person runabout, driver Barney Oldfield, passenger C. Arthur Benjamin, a Packard distributor in Syracuse, N.Y.

1908 Packard 30 Model UA with driver Barney Oldfield and C. Arthur Benjamin

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