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Women's Bicycle Race
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Four women in dresses and hats riding bicycles on a race track at the Langlade County Fair Grounds. Bleachers at left are empty, but there is a man in a carriage pulled by two horses in front of the stands. On the right two people are in the judge's stand and another man stands on the track below.
1895
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