File:Chariot race billboard, Hotel Pontchartrain, Detroit.jpg

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English: Nighttime view of Hotel Pontchartrain, Hammond building and illuminated billboard depicting a chariot race with text: "In Detroit, life is worth living." Building windows and streetcar windows are illuminated. Printed on front: "Pontchartrain Hotel, chariot race sign and Hammond building at night, Detroit, Mich."
Date Unknown, believed to be circa 1914
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Detroit Public Library Digital Collections. Resource ID bh000478

https://digitalcollections.detroitpubliclibrary.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A137285
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