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| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Calbraith Perry Rodgers, with a cigar characteristically clenched in his jaw, was the first man to fly across the United States. He undertook this flight i... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | John Schwister at the controls of the "Minnesota-Badger," the plane he built in St. Paul, Minnesota and Wausau, Wisconsin. The passenger beside Schwister i... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | A man, possibly an International Harvester factory worker, poses for a photograph wearing eye protection goggles. |
| 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: | 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... |
| 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: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Alexander Krueger standing on a ladder taking a swarm of bees that had swarmed in a tree. On the ground near the ladder is a hive box. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | August Kressin sitting in the driver's seat of a Flanders 20. He is wearing a pair of driving gloves. Farm buildings are in the background. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Frank B. Fargo, wearing a double-breasted duster and cap, is sitting at the wheel of an open automobile. His wife, Louise Mears Fargo, is sitting beside hi... |
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