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Title
F.B. Hower in official's Premier car at start of 1909 Glidden Tour, at Detroit, Mich.
Creator
Lazarnick, Nathan

Institution
Detroit Public Library

Subject
Glidden Tour (1909 : Detroit, Mich.)

Subject
Automobile racing--United States--History

Subject
Hotels--Michigan--Detroit

Item Number
EB01f196

Relation
Lazarnick Collection

Type
image

Description
4.75x6.25 black and white photograph of Frank B. Hower in the official's Premier car with crowd of men in straw hats directly behind car, in front of the Pontchartrain Hotel at the start of the Glidden Tour, at Detroit, Mich., July 12, 1909. Negative #C22,355. Photo edges cut unevenly.

F.B. Hower in official

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