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| Date: | 05 02 1956 |
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| Description: | Father demonstrates controls of a mini-race car as his daughter sits in the car. |
| Date: | 05 16 1958 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee Braves first baseman Joe Adcock swinging a bat, possibly in spring training 1958. Known for his power, Adcock had an off year in 1958, hitting 1... |
| Date: | 06 08 1959 |
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| Description: | Lew Burdette, pitcher for the Milwaukee Braves baseball team, swinging a bat against the Chicago Cubs on June 8, 1959. Burdette, always known as a good hit... |
| Date: | 05 16 1958 |
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| Description: | Joe Adcock in action at Milwaukee Braves spring training. |
| Date: | 03 27 1957 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Milwaukee Braves catcher Delmar Crandall at spring training. |
| 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: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Three men on pilings posing with man in a diving suit in preparation for a dive. Onlookers are standing above on a bridge in the background. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Man in diving suit being helped out of the water by three men in a rowboat. |
| 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: | 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... |
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| Description: | At Big Muskegan Wind. In a marsh part of a lake, a man in waders is bent over among the reeds. In the background are three people in a boat, with one perso... |
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| Description: | A line of cars ready for the start of a race, possibly taking place at the State Fair. Spectators are in the background. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | John Craig, Max Gene Nohl (seated in the dive suit), Dr. Edgar End and a fourth unknown person looking in. The location is the Milwaukee County Emergency H... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | A revolutionary dive suit that solved the problems of breathing air at depth by using a mixture of helium and oxygen rather than nitrogen and oxygen. The s... |
| Date: | 04 10 1937 |
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| Description: | On April 10th, 1937, Max Nohl (shown in the dive suit) along with John Craig made a dive on the shipwreck Norland in order to perform another early ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Herbert Edmund Brumder posing outdoors as a center ready to snap his football. He is wearing a leather helmet, football jersey and padded football pants. T... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Green Bay Packer's Quarterback Bart Starr and Center Jim Ringo in formation during a football game against the Detroit Tigers. Two referees observing, and ... |
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