Digital Collection
2013.040.440a

Print, Photographic

Black and white proof depicting Chuck Thompson and 1963 Miss Michigan Pamela Lee Sands in the cockpit of the MISS PEPSI, as it is being installed in the Miss Pepsi Pavilion at the Dossin Great Lakes Museum, taken from a proof sheet of nine images. A worker examines a strap on the boat's starboard quarter. A crowd onlookers including members of the Dossin family, and Detroit Historical Museum personnel watch from the south side of the pavilion. Robert Lee walks along the port side of the hydroplane. "M-924," is handwritten, and "Dept. Report & Info. Comm., Sept. 19 1963," is stamped on the verso of the proof sheet.

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