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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A parade turning the corner from Wisconsin Avenue on to the Capitol Square. A horse-drawn wagon in the foreground carries a May Pole and dancers from the K... |
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| Description: | A horse-drawn carriage decorated for a floral parade on West Washington Avenue. The carriage is passing in front of the Gates of Heaven Synagogue (the buil... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Two men sit in a two-wheeled buggy hooked up to zebras, next to a fence near the Ring Barn on the left (which is still standing), with several male spectat... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Three people are posing in the foreground, with a man with a long beard standing in front of two women sitting in a horse-drawn carriage. There is a barn a... |
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| Description: | Group posed playing croquet in front of a bank barn with a handsome cupola and lightning rods. Horse-drawn wagons are in front of the barn. |
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| Description: | A Gothic Revival farmhouse with barge board trim behind a fence. Adjacent to the house are farm buildings, one which has a windmill mounted upon it. Men on... |
| Date: | 09 10 1879 |
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| Description: | Crowd at the Camp Randall fairgrounds watching a horse race, part of that year's Wisconsin State Fair. Carriages and people are near buildings on the left,... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Well-dressed young couples sit in the foreground. In the background is a picket fence running along a busy road with horse and buggy traffic. Further on is... |
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| Description: | Man in a sulky, probably Eugene Greenlee, the Superintendent of Water Works, possibly pulled by a race horse. |
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| Description: | Man posing in a sulky, probably Eugene Greenlee, the Superintendent of Water Works, possibly pulled by a race horse. Note the solid tires. When pneumatic t... |
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| Description: | Man in a sulky posing at the racetrack, probably Moses Pauquette. There is an open-sided building in the background, perhaps a grandstand. |
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| Description: | Man in a racing rig with a harnessed horse on the northwest corner of Harrison and Third Street. There is a barn behind them. |
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| Description: | Man in a sulky. The harnessing indicates that the horse is a pacer. The sulky is the type with pneumatic tires and ball bearings. |
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| Description: | Sulky driver and horse practicing on racetrack. The grandstand is on the right. |
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| Description: | Sulky drivers and horses racing toward the finish line at the racetrack. The judges booth is in the center in front of a tall tree. A large crowd surrounds... |
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| Description: | Elevated view from grandstand of one sulky driver and horse leading another in a race. The judges booth is on the other side of the track near a tall tree. |
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| Description: | Racehorses and jockeys rounding the bend in the racetrack. In the background is the grandstand on the left, and the judges booth in the center near a tall ... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a crowd watching a woman in a chariot driving four horses in a circus parade in town. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a crowd watching a woman with two white horses in a circus parade. She is riding one of the horses. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a crowd watching elephants in a circus parade. In the foreground are power lines and telephone poles. |
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