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Early automobilists in front of Hotel Edgewood on Pennsylvania Avenue, Baltimore

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Photograph of early automobilists in an early-model Ford motor car in front of the Hotel Edgewood at number 1501 Pennsylvania Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland. The caption accompanying the photograph, published in the Baltimore Evening Sun on August 4, 1936, reads: "These early automobilists in Baltimore had the stuff of which pioneers, or martyrs, are made, for their smooth, soft tires would blow out at every provocation, and were magnets for all the old nails and splinters in the streets." The car is not equipped with a top or windshield, which may be why the passengers are wearing hats and coats. Among the onlookers are two African American members of the hotel staff. The hotel is a two-story frame building with a wrap-around covered porch, surrounded by a lawn and trees.
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Keywords

  1. African American Men
  2. African Americans
  3. Architecture, Domestic
  4. Automobile Occupants
  5. Baltimore
  6. Ford Automobile
  7. Hotels
  8. Maryland
  9. Streets
  10. Trees In Cities

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