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| Date: | 10 1912 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of drivers making last minute adjustments to their automobiles at the start of the Milwaukee Grand Prize race (later called the Amer... |
| Date: | 10 1912 |
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| Description: | A solitary open car races past the grandstands at the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds. |
| Date: | 10 1912 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Harness race at the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds. Caption at top left reads: "Partial view, Grand Stand and Race Track, Wisconsin State Fair, Milwaukee." |
| Date: | 10 05 1912 |
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| Description: | Photojournalist Fred Wagner covered the 1912 Milwaukee Grand Prize automobile race (later called the American Grand Prix) from Farnum Fish's airplane. The ... |
| Date: | 09 13 1919 |
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| Description: | Two open cars, a Deusenberg and a Hudson, race around a curve at the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds track, spewing dust behind them. The Milwaukee Mile track ... |
| Date: | 09 09 1911 |
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| Description: | Panoramic view of auto race start at the Minnesota State Fair. Text affixed to the back of the bleachers reads, "Battle in the Clouds, Tonight at 7:30." S... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A small crowd gathers around a man as he tees off at a golf course. |
| 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: | 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: | 10 05 1912 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 10 02 1912 |
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| Description: | Race cars on a country road, with car #29 off the road and missing its driver. The #27 car is just about to pass, with a dust trail behind it. Spectators ... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | View from the upper right field corner of a baseball game in progress at the National League Ball park in Chicago. The stands are filled with spectators an... |
| Date: | 11 1911 |
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| Description: | A view of the University of Wisconsin football fans at Camp Randall during the game against Ripon College, which UW won 24-0. Student Ralph Engsberg, who ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A view of sailors seated around a boxing ring, watching a match at a United States Naval Training Camp. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A group of soldiers play with a large push ball while others look on. The military buildings of the United States Naval Training Camp stand behind the spe... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of a "Frontier Days" Rodeo. A man holding his hat in one hand is riding a bronco while two other men run nearby. A circle of observers on horseback st... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of a "Frontier Days" Rodeo. A man is riding a bucking bronco while four other men surround him. A circle of observers on horseback are behind a barric... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A man is riding a bucking bronco while two other men try to calm it at a "Frontier Days" rodeo. |
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