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Title
Before the start of the 1909 Glidden Tour, Detroit, Mich.
Creator
Lazarnick, Nathan

Institution
Detroit Public Library

Subject
Glidden Tour (1909 : Detroit, Mich.)

Subject
Automobile racing--United States--History

Subject
Streets--Michigan--Detroit

Item Number
EB01f154

Relation
Lazarnick Collection

Type
image

Description
4.5x6.75 black and white photograph of a tent, participating cars, men walking across trolley tracks, street cleaner sweeping, Wayne County building in background, businesses on right, Burns Hotel on left. Glidden Tour, Detroit, Mich., July 1909. Negative #C3043.

Before the start of the 1909 Glidden Tour, Detroit, Mich.

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