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Gosling's Display at W.S.B.M. Festival

Date: 09 05 1943
Description: Gosling's Sales and Service display at West Side Business Men's Association harvest festival featuring coffee grinders, meat grinders and Holcomb & Hoke Ma...
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Fishing Pole Carrier for Automobiles

Date: 03 24 1947
Description: Prototype of "Sure Grip" fishing pole holder for carrying fishing poles on the top or sides of a car. Shows device with an advertising card attached that i...
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Football Player on Scale

Date: 11 24 1944
Description: A football player standing on a scale.
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Baby Weigh-In before Baby Show

Date: 09 19 1952
Description: Brian Lange, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Lange, Portage, being weighed by Inez Lee, assistant chairman of the American Legion Baby Show and Child Talent Cont...
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University of Wisconsin Football Players

Date: 11 23 1944
Description: Ten individual portraits of University of Wisconsin football players each standing on a Toledo No-Springs scale. Included are: Joe Campbell, John Davey, Cl...
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Professor Philip G. Fox and Slot Machine

Date: 03 03 1945
Description: Philip G. Fox, 513 Virginia Terrace, professor of business administration at the University of Wisconsin, with a slot machine. Professor Fox is a well-kno...
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Man with Boat on Pier

Date: 05 24 1945
Description: Bennie Berg standing on a lake shore dock next to a Hoover Boat Line boat. Also shows his invention to aid in launching, the Berg's Inc. Boat Roller.
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Football Player Jack Mead on Scale

Date: 11 24 1944
Description: University of Wisconsin football player Jack Mead standing on a scale for weigh-in. Mead went on to participate in the 1945 Pro Football College Draft and...
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Football Player Nick Holmes on Scale

Date: 11 24 1944
Description: University of Wisconsin football player Nick Holmes standing on a scale for weigh-in.
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Football Player Clarence Esser on Scale

Date: 11 24 1944
Description: University of Wisconsin football player Clarence Esser standing on a scale for weigh-in.
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Football Player Roger Laubenheimer on Scale

Date: 11 24 1944
Description: University of Wisconsin football player Roger Laubenheimer standing on a scale at weigh-in.
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Golf Club and Tees

Date: 04 28 1947
Description: Several patented golf tees designed to slip over the handle of a golf club. Shown are two different types of two-pronged tees, a three-pronged tee, a singl...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Weigh-In

Date: 07 26 1947
Description: Weigh-in for Soap Box Derby entrants. Pierre Slightam, in striped shirt, has his car the Doodlebug weighed. The floor of the car was made from an old iro...
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Berg Boat Wheels

Date: 02 11 1948
Description: A Thompson boat with detachable Berg boat wheels on the stern and an Evinrude outboard motor. Taken for the Kulzick Advertizing Agency. A man is standing i...
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Fisherman Lester Shore

Date: 04 09 1948
Description: Police Officer Lester Shore, holding a "River Shiner" fishing lure, for which he holds a patent. It is a casting plug that has a metal lip and shaft and im...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Weigh-In

Date: 07 23 1949
Description: Ted Ryan being weighed with his racing car. Their combined weight was just under the 250-pound limit. Left to right are Weighmaster Frankie Meyers, 1948 Ma...
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Skaters on Lake Mendota

Date: 1890
Description: View in winter from Lake Mendota of skaters near shoreline of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Science Hall and the Chemical Laboratory building...
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Rat Bait Trap Contest Winner

Date: 12 16 1951
Description: At left, Lynn Hazelbaker is shown demonstrating the winning entry of the Madison Youth Council's rat bait box building contest built by Edward Ripp, age 14...
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Madison Soap Box Derby, Weigh-In

Date: 07 20 1952
Description: Dick Dummershausen, seated in his racer, is weighed prior to the Madison Soap Box Derby. The official weighmaster is Joe Marx (right) from Toledo Scales Co...
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Yahara Fishermen's Club Percharee

Date: 01 17 1954
Description: Portrait of Oscar Dary at a fish weighing station.

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