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| Date: | 09 13 1919 |
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| Description: | Two open cars, a Deusenberg and a Hudson, race around a curve at the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds track, spewing dust behind them. The Milwaukee Mile track ... |
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| Description: | Fairgoers walk past the Women's Building at the Wisconsin State Fair. The sign on the front reads: Women's Dept." |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Crowds walking past the Horticulture Building at the Wiconsin State Fair. In a pavilion above the building the Aluminum Goose Manufacturing Co. Band of Ma... |
| Date: | 08 1948 |
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| Description: | Fair employees use a crane to complete the positioning of the "Forward" statue at the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition. The grandstand can be seen in the ba... |
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| Description: | Race car driver Paul Russo of Kenosha at the Wisconsin State Fair. He raced in 13 Indianapolis 500 races. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of crowds packing the Midway at the Wisconsin State Fair. |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising the appearance of television and motion picture "cowboy" stars Roy Rogers and Dale Evans at the Wisconsin State Fair. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Cattle judging at the Wisconsin State Fair. The cattle barns C and D are in the background. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A Jersey herd being lined up for the judges at the Wisconsin State Fair. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A farmer shows off his percheron colt at the Wisconsin State Fair. At the turn of the century when a farmer's livelihood was dependent on his horses, the d... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of the Wisconsin State Fair showing the long row of horse barns. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | East door of the Livestock Judging Pavilion at the Wisconsin State Fair. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Poultry Building at the Wisconsin State Fair, showing some poultry on display. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Exhibits of farm equipment and the gasoline engines that would have powered some of them at the Wisconsin State Fair. A Ferris wheel is visible in the back... |
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| Description: | Silhouetted in the dusk, skaters raced for the two mile title in the Great lakes championships at Eckel Park, West Allis. Verner Kappes, of West Allis, led... |
| Date: | 10 02 1912 |
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| Description: | African American heavyweight boxing champion, Jack Johnson, drove up to Milwaukee from his home in Chicago to watch the Vanderbilt Cup race on October 2, 1... |
| Date: | 10 05 1912 |
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| Description: | A wrecked automobile, which crashed during the 1912 Milwaukee Grand Prize Race (later called the American Grand Prix); possibly car #35, in which driver Ra... |
| Date: | 10 1912 |
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| Description: | Driver David Bruce-Brown and mechanic Tony Scudelari pose in their race car. Although they had been warned that their tires appeared worn, on October 1, 19... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Midway area of the Wisconsin State Fair, showing a truck advertising peanuts at 5 cents in the center background. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | The blimp of the Goodyear Tire Company hovers above the carnival area of the Wisconsin State Fair, tethered to the ground with ropes. The fairgoers, howev... |
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