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Don's Delivery Service

Date: 08 15 1937
Description: Employees of Don's Delivery Service, Inc. near the main Post Office, with Harley Davidson motorcycles and a closed panel truck. They are parked across the ...
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Roundy Coughlin on the Orpheum Theatre Stage

Date: 05 27 1939
Description: Roundy Coughlin in a police uniform, standing in front of a motorcycle and a life-sized poster of four movie stars on a tandem bicycle. This event occurred...
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Car Towing Motorcycle

Date: 07 22 1935
Description: A man in a labcoat shows off a car hitched to a service motorcycle in front of Waters Motor's Co., 802 E. Washington Avenue.
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Police Officers Receive Group Insurance Policies

Date: 05 16 1935
Description: Group portrait of police officers receiving insurance policies in front of the Madison Police Station, 14-16 South Webster Street, with motorcycles parked ...
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Dane County Traffic Police

Date: 05 26 1934
Description: Dane County traffic officers standing next to new Ford V8 automobiles and Harley-Davidson motorcycles.
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Dane County Traffic Police & Cycles

Date: 05 26 1934
Description: Dane County traffic police officers on their new Harley-Davidson motorcycles.
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Bus and Streetcar Accident

Date: 10 01 1932
Description: Bus and streetcar accident at Regent Street and Mills Street, looking north on Mills.
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Dane County Motor Police

Date: 05 16 1931
Description: Four Dane County motor police officers shown with four Harley Davidson motorcycles, and two other men, taken in front of Madison Battery and Tire, 250 Stat...
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FDR in Milwaukee

Date: 10 01 1932
Description: Franklin D. Roosevelt campaigning for the presidency in Milwaukee in 1932. FDR is riding in a flag-draped open car and escorted by police on motorcycles.
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Doublewide Sidecar Prototype

Date: 1932
Description: Ralph Hilgers, wearing sunglasses, is seated on his 74 Harley-Davidson twin cylinder, late 1920's model motorcycle. His motorcycle is shown with a prototyp...
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Man Sitting on Harley-Davidson Motorcycle

Date: 1930
Description: A man is sitting on his Harley-Davidson motorcycle parked along a gravel road near a stone wall. He is wearing leather gloves, a jacket, dark pants, lace-u...
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Man Sitting on Harley-Davidson Motorcycle

Date: 1936
Description: Raymond (Ray) Griesemer is sitting on his Harley-Davidson motorcycle. He is wearing a jacket, dark pants and boots. In the background is a field with grass...
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Resting at the Illinois Border

Date: 1933
Description: A group of Harley-Davidson riders stopping for a rest on the side of the highway at the Wisconsin-Illinois border. A man and a woman, wearing Milwaukee Mot...
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Motorcycles with Sidecars

Date: 1935
Description: A man, on the right, is riding a Harley-Davidson motorcycle with a man in a sidecar, on the left, in an event for the Badger Derby. The driver who is smoki...
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Badger Derby Winner

Date: 1935
Description: The 1935 Badger Derby winner, John T. Chasty, receiving his trophy. He is sitting on his motorcycle and is wearing motorcycle gear and a special derby hat....

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