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Accession Number:2000-187-6
Accession Date:
Condition:good
Location:Archives, Black History Coll., Box 3, Folder 20
Keywords:Walter Majors, inventions, automobile, African-American, Spanish American War
Area of Origin:Springfield MO
Period:ca 1900
Category:Documentary Artifact
Object:Print, photographic
Maker:uk
Description/History:Black and white photo made from a newspaper clipping of Walter "Duck" Majors in his red "Walter Major's machine." Majors owned a bicycle shop on Jefferson Avenue across from the Colonial Hotel. He built the first automobile made in Springfield and patented 13 other inventions, including a taxi cab meter and a hair dryer. Majors was a Spanish American War veteran. RESTRICTED ACCESS. DO NOT USE WITHOUT PERMISSION.
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