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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: | 05 02 1956 |
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| Description: | Father demonstrates controls of a mini-race car as his daughter sits in the car. |
| Date: | 09 03 1953 |
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| Description: | Mary Ellen Jenks, the 1953 Alice in Dairyland from Chippewa Falls, rides in the official convertible provided for Alice by Hult's in Madison. She is waving... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | A photographer stands close to the Milwaukee Mile racetrack with camera poised to capture the action as the stock cars competing in the race speed by him. ... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | The pit crew works on #26, a Ford Fairlane, during an automobile race at the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Jack McGrath, an Indianapolis 500 driver, photographed at the Milwaukee State Fair, with his cream colored Hinkle Special. McGrath died in an automobile cr... |
| 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: | 08 30 1954 |
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| Description: | The pit crew signals their driver that his vehicle is exhibiting tire trouble and that he should come in for servicing. |
| 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... |
| 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... |
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| Description: | Men with several early twentieth-century race cars are parked along a city street. Numbers are painted on the front of the cars. One man is standing on ste... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | The person on the right is Frank Kulick, who worked on and drove some of Henry Ford's early race cars. The individual on the left is unidentified. |
| 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: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Driver Spencer Washart on left, with John Genter (the mechanic) sitting next to him. Washart has 'Mercedes" written across his shirt. Another car is behind... |
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| Description: | Four men in a car with the number four on the front is driving up a dirt road surrounded by fields. Hay bales are in the field on the right. |
| Date: | 10 02 1912 |
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| Description: | Race car #26, possibly driven by Spencer Wishart, driving down a country road during the Vanderbilt Cup Race. Two houses are on the right behind fences and... |
| Date: | 09 1912 |
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| Description: | Two men sitting in a racecar, with the driver of the car, possibly Harry Endicott, wearing a leather mask with goggles. Two men are standing in the backgro... |
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