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ID-9 — Parks, Cemeteries, Etc.

Date: 1950
Description: Subject: "ID-9 — Parks, Cemeteries, Etc." Where Taken: "NE." Information with photograph reads: "Owned by New Hampshire Jockey Club, Salem, N.H. Used with ...
Photograph

Industrial Tractors Working at Racetrack

Date: 07 02 1927
Description: View across racetrack towards five men driving five industrial tractors pulling rollers to smooth out the track.
Photograph

Emery E. Anderson

Date: 06 07 1934
Description: Portrait of Emery E. Anderson, 729 Jenifer Street, who won a $500 consolation prize from the Irish Hospital Sweepstakes fund as a result of the running of ...
Photograph

Multiple Tractor Scenes — Parks, Cemeteries, Etc.

Date: 1950
Description: Subject: "Multiple Tractor Scenes — Parks, Cemeteries, Etc." Where Taken: "SW." Information with photograph reads: "Used by the Fairgrounds Race Track (New...
Photograph

Multiple Tractor Scenes — Parks, Cemeteries, Etc.

Date: 1950
Description: Subject: "Multiple Tractor Scenes — Parks, Cemeteries, Etc." Where Taken: "SW." Information with photograph reads: "Used by the Fairgrounds Race Track (New...
Photograph

Westport St. Mary's of the Lake 7th Annual Harness Racing and Horse Show

Date: 06 14 1957
Description: Esther Hornung (husband Anthony), Route 1, President of the Westport St. Mary's of the Lakes Altar Society, tours the Wilmar Farm harness racing track with...
Photograph

Harnessed Horses at the Fair

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Description: Scene of the local fair, with men with horses wearing racing harnesses. A grandstand and other buildings are in the background.
Photograph

Racing Buggy on Racetrack

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Description: View down track towards a horse pulling a man in a racing buggy. Location identified as the racetrack at Jackson County Fairgrounds.
Photograph

Track at Jackson Conty Fairgrounds

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Description: Outdoor view across tracks towards a man on a horse turning curve in a track in front of a large grandstand. Probably at the Jackson County fairgrounds.
Photograph

Buggy Race at Jackson County Fairgrounds

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Description: Outdoor view across track towards horses and racing buggies turning a curve in front of a large grandstand. Probably at the Jackson County fairgrounds.
Photograph

Villa Louis

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Description: View across field towards Villa Louis, with a white fence in the middle ground and a race track in the foreground.
Photograph

From the Stretch at Fair Grounds

Date: 1909
Description: View across fairground racetrack, with judging stands and large barn in the background.
Photograph

Cuyahoga County Fair Trotting Races

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Description: Horses pull wagons on a stretch of racetrack at the Cuyahoga County Fair while spectators gather around the track beside parked automobiles.
Photograph

State Fair Grounds, Oklahoma

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Description: View of the State Fair Grounds featuring a race track and a crowd seated in the grandstands.
Photograph

Fairgrounds Harness Race

Date: 07 14 1944
Description: Racers heading into the curve in front of the grandstand at a county fair harness race.
Poster

Champion Harvesting Machinery Advertising Poster

Date: 1914
Description: Advertising poster featuring color illustrations of Champion brand horse-drawn mowers, reapers, grain binders and hay rakes, as well as an illustration of ...
Print

W.J. Fitzpatrick

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Description: Cigarette Advertising card produced by Kinney Brothers. Depicted is W.J. Fitzpatrick, a jockey and 1888 winner of "The Sequence Stakes."
Print

W.J. Fitzpatrick

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Description: Cigarette Advertising Card produced by Kinney Brothers. Depicted is W.J. Fitzpatrick, a jockey and winner of "The Suburban 1886."
Print

Isaac Lewis

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Description: Cigarette Advertising Card produced by Kinney Brothers. Depicted is Isaac Lewis, a jockey. Lewis rode in four consecutive Kentucky Derbies, 1886-1889, winn...
Poster

Wisconsin State Fair Poster

Date: 1900
Description: Color chromolithograph poster advertising the Wisconsin State Fair.

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