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Title
Simplex car in the 1909 Glidden Tour automobile parade, Detroit, Mich.
Creator
Lazarnick, Nathan

Institution
Detroit Public Library

Subject
Glidden Tour (1909 : Detroit, Mich.)

Subject
Parades--Michigan--Detroit

Subject
Automobile racing--United States--History

Item Number
EB01f028

Relation
Lazarnick Collection

Type
image

Description
4.5x6.75 black and white photograph of committee in Simplex car at the head of the automobile parade at Detroit, Mich., July 10, 1909. Eight men standing on car, marching band coming up behind car. Negative #C21,448. Bottom left corner of photograph missing.

Simplex car in the 1909 Glidden Tour automobile parade, Detroit, Mich.

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