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Milwaukee Motorcycle Race

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Description: Motorcyclists at the start of the race, probably at the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds.
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Man in Ring

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Description: Man standing in what appears to be a boxing ring.
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Semi-Pro Baseball

Date: 1915
Description: Two men playing baseball for semi-pro teams in a Milwaukee ballpark.
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Playing Tennis

Date: 1900
Description: Mixed doubles tennis game outdoors at the beginning of the 20th century, with a woman clad in long dress and upswept hair. A man wearing a tie is running b...
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Auto Breakdown at the State Fairgrounds

Date: 10 1912
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.
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Motorcycle Race

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Description: A crowd is watching as a motorcycle racer prepares to cross the finish line. Although unidentified, the race is thought to have taken place at the State Fa...
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Wrecked Automobile

Date: 10 05 1912
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...
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David Bruce-Brown and Tony Scudelari

Date: 10 1912
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...
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Grand Prize

Date: 10 05 1912
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...
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Cars on Racetrack

Date: 1912
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...
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Grand Prix

Date: 10 05 1912
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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Group of Men on Racetrack

Date: 1912
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...
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Race Day

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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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Car Racing

Date: 1912
Description: A two-passenger car with the number 13 on the front is going around the bend on a dirt race track. The guard rail fence is in the foreground.
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Car Racing

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Description: Elevated view of a race car on the track moving past a stationary vehicle in the foreground. Behind a second fence is a large crowd of people observing the...
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Motorcycle Racing

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Description: A group of men are lined up on motorcycles on a track preparing to race.
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Buggy Race with Fred Pabst

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Description: Two men are racing small horse-drawn buggies on a dirt track at an exhibition at the Pabst Farms. The man on the left is identified as Fred Pabst, Milwauke...
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Steinborn Studio Baseball Team

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Description: A group portrait of the Steinborn Studio baseball team, sitting and standing in a group in the outfield. The coaches are wearing suits, and the bat boys ar...
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Start of Automobile Race

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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.
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Sporting Event Spectators

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Description: A group of spectators including men, women, and children standing at a railing watching some type of sporting event in a field where a large crowd is gathe...

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