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| 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: | 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: | 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: | 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... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | The man in the goggles on the right is Teddy Tetzlaff; possibly at the Vanderbilt Cup Race. The other men are unidentified. In the background is the grands... |
| 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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| Description: | A line of cars ready for the start of a race, possibly taking place at the State Fair. Spectators are in the background. |
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