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Grand Prize Automobile Race
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Slightly elevated view of drivers making last minute adjustments to their automobiles at the start of the Milwaukee Grand Prize race (later called the American Grand Prix).
October 1912
Taylor, J. Robert
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Airplane Coverage of the Milwaukee Grand Prize Race
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Photojournalist Fred Wagner covered the 1912 Milwaukee Grand Prize automobile race (later called the American Grand Prix) from Farnum Fish's airplane. The airplane is seen here flying over the race...
Grand Prize
October 5, 1912
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 two men are unidentified. An observation ar...
Wrecked Automobile
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A wrecked automobile, which crashed during the 1912 Milwaukee Grand Prize Race (later called the American Grand Prix); possibly car #35, in which driver Ralph DePalma was seriously injured.
Auto Race at the State Fairgrounds
October 1912
A solitary open car races past the grandstands at the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds.
Cars on Racetrack
1912
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 spectators.
Grand Prix
October 5, 1912
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 going east.
