Date: | 1879 |
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Description: | Norwegian Sunday School Picnic at Mendota steamboat landing. Small lake steamer "Mendota" could reach speeds of up to 18 mph. The barge "Uncle Sam" was 75f... |
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Description: | A motorcyclist drives down the middle of the road, possibly in a race, as a crowd looks on. |
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Description: | A crowd of people in the street, many of them with motorcycles, possibly getting ready to race. |
Date: | 1915 |
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Description: | A woman adjusts her motorcycle in the middle of a street. A motorcycle is parked next to her. |
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... |
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Description: | Motorcyclists at the start of the race, probably at the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds. |
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. |
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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... |
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: | 10 02 1912 |
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Description: | African American heavyweight boxing champion, Jack Johnson, drove up to Milwaukee from his home in Chicago to watch the Vanderbilt Cup race on October 2, 1... |
Date: | 10 05 1912 |
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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... |
Date: | 10 1912 |
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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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Description: | Motorcycles and riders standing on dirt road, with a log cabin behind a fence in the background. |
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Description: | Motorcyclist driving down a rural dirt road. |
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Description: | Men, motorcycles and a car stopped on a rural dirt road. A sign on the back of the car reads "Milwaukee Journal Motorcycle Tour Press Car". |
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... |
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