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1948 Packard club sedan on road with female driver, by sign 'Detroit Via Expressway'
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1948
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Making of Modern Michigan
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8x10 black and white Packard Co. file photograph of a 1948 Packard left side view, on road with female driver, sign at front of car reads 'Detroit Via Expressway.' Photo caption on back from Packard News Service: Performance car among Packard's new 1948 designs is the super eight club sedan shown here, powered by a new 145-horsepower straight eight engine, this model has the highest power-to-weight ratio of any car in the new Packard line, one of three all new Packard eights for 1948, the...
Show more8x10 black and white Packard Co. file photograph of a 1948 Packard left side view, on road with female driver, sign at front of car reads 'Detroit Via Expressway.' Photo caption on back from Packard News Service: Performance car among Packard's new 1948 designs is the super eight club sedan shown here, powered by a new 145-horsepower straight eight engine, this model has the highest power-to-weight ratio of any car in the new Packard line, one of three all new Packard eights for 1948, the super eight series includes three body types on 120-inch wheelbase, and four body types on 141-inch wheel base, all are distinguished by their new 'free flow' styling, and many other unusual body and chassis features.
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All trains at the Marquette depot
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1888-07-11
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Making of Modern Michigan
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All trains at the Marquette depot now carry cards showing their destinations. The scheme should be put in practice at the Sault, for hardly a train pulls out from there witout one or two chumps on board who suppose that they were taken by the Soo line, which for the present is using the terminal facilities of the DSS&A. They persits in taking the wrong train in spite of the efforts of the train men to enlighten them and are bounced regularly a mile or two out.
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E.M.F. car parked under sign, on pathfinder tour for 1909 Glidden Tour
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Date
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1909-04
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Making of Modern Michigan
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5x7 black and white photograph of E.M.F. car with unidentified car, parked under a sign that reads: 'Colorado Inter-State Fair and Exposition, Sept. 12-18, 1909,' on pathfinding tour for the 1909 Glidden tour. Negative #C2848.
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E.M.F. car stopped at sign, on pathfinder tour for 1909 Glidden Tour
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Date
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1909-04
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Collection
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Making of Modern Michigan
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Description
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7x5 black and white photograph of Dai H. Lewis and party in E.M.F. pathfinder car stopped on rural road, passenger and driver pointing at sign that says 'The use of intoxicating liquor, tobacco, profanity and vulgarity absolutely forbidden in this city under penalty,' houses in background, on pathfinding tour for the 1909 Glidden Tour. Negative #C2229.
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Glidden tourist's cars parked at Denver at the 1909 Glidden Tour
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Date
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1909-07
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Making of Modern Michigan
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4.75x6.75 black and white photograph of tourist's cars parked and covered, advertisements on signboards are seen, a small group of men are standing in front of a building, the sign reads,' French dry cleaning and mending parlors.' in Denver, Colorado, at the 1909 Glidden Tour. Negative #C21,888. Photo edges cut unevenly.
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Sign for the 1909 Glidden Tour, Detroit, Mich.
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Date
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1909-07-10
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Collection
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Making of Modern Michigan
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Description
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4.5x6.75 black and white photograph of a sign on top of the Pere Marquette Canadian Pacific building, reads 'Detroit's Leaders' at top, sign depicts a Roman chariot race. Caption on photo back: 'The best sign in the world open for tourists.' July 10, 1909. Negative #C21,395.
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Tourist marching to the Denver Motor Club at the 1909 Glidden Tour
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Date
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1909-07
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Making of Modern Michigan
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4.5x6.5 black and white photograph of tourists, Caption on photo back: ' Tourists of the tour marching to the Denver Motor Club.' a marching band leads the way, Glidden sign hangs in the middle of street, a building with signage on the side is to the right of the photo, at the 1909 Glidden Tour. Negative #C21,850.
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Tourists checking in at Madison, Wis., 1909 Glidden Tour
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Date
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1909-07
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Making of Modern Michigan
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4.5x6.5 black and white photograph of tourists checking in at Madison, Wisconsin, crowd gathers on left side of street, on the right a hand shaped sign points to 'Turkish Baths,' at the 1909 Glidden Tour. Negative #C21,627. Photo edges cut unevenly.