Date: | 10 1912 |
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Description: | Slightly elevated view of drivers making last minute adjustments to their automobiles at the start of the Milwaukee Grand Prize race (later called the Amer... |
Date: | 10 1912 |
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Description: | A solitary open car races past the grandstands at the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds. |
Date: | 10 1912 |
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Description: | A race car driver wearing a "Buick shirt" watches as his crew works on his vehicle. In the background, another car is passing the grandstand. |
Date: | 10 05 1912 |
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Description: | Photojournalist Fred Wagner covered the 1912 Milwaukee Grand Prize automobile race (later called the American Grand Prix) from Farnum Fish's airplane. The ... |
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: | 10 05 1912 |
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Description: | Bob Burman, left, leans on a #31 Benz race car. Caleb Bragg, winner of Grand Prize Race in 1912, on road course in Wauwatosa, faces the camera. The other t... |
Date: | 1912 |
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Description: | Early twentieth-century race cars lined up for the beginning of a race. heavy smoke is behind the cars. The grandstand on the left is filled with spectator... |
Date: | 10 05 1912 |
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Description: | Teddy Tetzlaff drives the Fiat #33 across the finish line. The stands on the right are covered in advertisements. The track later became Burleigh Street go... |
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Description: | Men with several early twentieth-century race cars are parked along a city street. Numbers are painted on the front of the cars. One man is standing on ste... |
Date: | 1912 |
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Description: | The person on the right is Frank Kulick, who worked on and drove some of Henry Ford's early race cars. The individual on the left is unidentified. |
Date: | 10 02 1912 |
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Description: | Race cars on a country road, with car #29 off the road and missing its driver. The #27 car is just about to pass, with a dust trail behind it. Spectators ... |
Date: | 1912 |
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Description: | Driver Spencer Washart on left, with John Genter (the mechanic) sitting next to him. Washart has 'Mercedes" written across his shirt. Another car is behind... |
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Description: | Four men in a car with the number four on the front is driving up a dirt road surrounded by fields. Hay bales are in the field on the right. |
Date: | 10 02 1912 |
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Description: | Race car #26, possibly driven by Spencer Wishart, driving down a country road during the Vanderbilt Cup Race. Two houses are on the right behind fences and... |
Date: | 1912 |
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Description: | The man in the goggles on the right is Teddy Tetzlaff; possibly at the Vanderbilt Cup Race. The other men are unidentified. In the background is the grands... |
Date: | 09 1912 |
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Description: | Two men sitting in a racecar, with the driver of the car, possibly Harry Endicott, wearing a leather mask with goggles. Two men are standing in the backgro... |
Date: | 1911 |
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Description: | Several men are standing around a white car, with one leaning on the back end. A panel near the front of the car is open, exposing part of the engine. A Eu... |
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Description: | A long row of cars is lined up across the track on display. On the left side is the "Blitzen Benz". A grandstand is in the background. |
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