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| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Harness racers are shown in action at the Wisconsin State Fair Park, with an audience watching from the grandstand. |
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| Description: | Five harness racing horses, sulkies, and drivers race around the Wisconsin State Fair track as an audience watches from the grandstand. |
| Date: | 09 10 1879 |
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| Description: | Crowd at the Camp Randall fairgrounds watching a horse race, part of that year's Wisconsin State Fair. Carriages and people are near buildings on the left,... |
| Date: | 08 20 1941 |
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| Description: | While watching the finish of a horse race at the Wisconsin State Fair, Governor Julius Heil raises his arm to cheer. Seated beside him (left to right) are ... |
| Date: | 07 14 1944 |
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| Description: | One horse and racer on the track in front of the judges stand during a harness race at a fairgrounds. Signs visible promote county fairs in Darlington and ... |
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| Description: | Man preparing to halter a race horse. They are standing near a fence, and in the background are buildings and people. |
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| Description: | Man in a sulky, probably Eugene Greenlee, the Superintendent of Water Works, possibly pulled by a race horse. |
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| Description: | Man posing in a sulky, probably Eugene Greenlee, the Superintendent of Water Works, possibly pulled by a race horse. Note the solid tires. When pneumatic t... |
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| Description: | Man in a sulky posing at the racetrack, probably Moses Pauquette. There is an open-sided building in the background, perhaps a grandstand. |
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| Description: | Man in a racing rig with a harnessed horse on the northwest corner of Harrison and Third Street. There is a barn behind them. |
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| Description: | Sulky driver and horse practicing on racetrack. The grandstand is on the right. |
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| Description: | Sulky drivers and horses racing toward the finish line at the racetrack. The judges booth is in the center in front of a tall tree. A large crowd surrounds... |
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| Description: | Elevated view from grandstand of one sulky driver and horse leading another in a race. The judges booth is on the other side of the track near a tall tree. |
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| Description: | Racehorses and jockeys rounding the bend in the racetrack. In the background is the grandstand on the left, and the judges booth in the center near a tall ... |
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| Description: | Elevated view from grandsstand towards men adjusting a jockey's stirrup and the gear of a horse on racetrack. On the other side of the track is the judges ... |
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| Description: | Two men riding horses in front of the stands at the racetrack. A few people are in the grandstand. |
| Date: | 07 12 1914 |
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| Description: | Crowds at the race course watching harness racing in Washington Park. There are three racers, and a crowd of spectators is sitting in the grandstands, on t... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | A KRNT radio broadcaster sitting on a platform above a horse track at the Iowa State Fair as another man on the right is filming the race for television. A... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | A large crowd sits in stadium-style bleachers to watch a horse race at the Iowa State Fair. |
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