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| Date: | 08 17 1963 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Grand Champion soap box coaster crossing the finish line. |
| Date: | 07 26 1947 |
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| Description: | Crowd and officials watch Soap Box Derby contestants at the finish line on East Gorham Street. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a race car on the track moving past a stationary vehicle in the foreground. Behind a second fence is a large crowd of people observing the... |
| Date: | 07 24 1949 |
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| Description: | Madison Soap Box Derby view of the crowd watching the race in front of Water Works, corner of East Gorham and North Hancock Streets. Motorcycle Officer, C.... |
| Date: | 07 24 1949 |
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| Description: | Seventy-six derby car drivers march behind leader Frankie Meyers on East Gorham Street during the Soap Box Derby Parade of Youth. |
| Date: | 07 28 1957 |
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| Description: | Finish line on East Washington Avenue of one of the heats at the 1957 Madison Soap Box Derby. The Wisconsin State Capitol is in the background. |
| Date: | 07 22 1951 |
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| Description: | Pre-race parade for Soap Box Derby, going past 151 East Gilman Street. |
| Date: | 07 22 1951 |
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| Description: | Soap Box Derby starting line at 140 East Gorham Street. |
| Date: | 07 22 1951 |
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| Description: | Derby cars are checked prior to the race at the Soap Box Derby Shellubrication Station at 140 and 144 East Gorham Street. |
| Date: | 07 22 1951 |
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| Description: | A pick-up truck from Hult's Capital Garage parks in front of 115 East Gorham Street with several derby car racers in the truck bed. |
| Date: | 07 25 1954 |
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| Description: | Finish line of the Soap Box Derby on Midvale Boulevard. Two cars are about to cross the line with crowds of people watching from behind fences along the si... |
| Date: | 07 20 1952 |
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| Description: | The starter, Glen (Pat) Holmes ,is holding the checkered flag at the starting ramp of the Soap Box Derby on Gorham Street as two cars prepare to take off. ... |
| Date: | 07 18 1937 |
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| Description: | Roundy Coughlin handing Madison soap box derby champion Ken Johnson, age 15, the M.E. Coyle trophy while the crowd applauds in the background. The rac... |
| Date: | 07 20 1952 |
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| Description: | Madison Soap Box Derby starter, Glen (Pat) Holmes, watches as two racers go down the East Gorham Street hill in front of the crowd watching the race. |
| Date: | 07 17 1953 |
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| Description: | Four members of the Madison Parks Department building the ramp on Midvale Avenue for the upcoming Madison Soap Box derby. Left to right: Vie Cramer, Don Ke... |
| Date: | 07 17 1953 |
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| Description: | Seven Madison street department workers preparing the route of the upcoming Madison Soap Box derby. Left to right: Clark Evarts, William Skolaski, Ed Westb... |
| Date: | 07 17 1953 |
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| Description: | WIBA truck and two radio broadcasters on south Midvale Boulevard, the site of the Madison Soap Box Derby. |
| Date: | 07 23 1949 |
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| Description: | Two racers streak down the soap box derby track on E. Gorham Street as a large crowd watches from behind a fence along the sidewalk. |
| Date: | 07 23 1949 |
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| Description: | View from behind of a soap box racer in the starting gate at the top of the E. Gorham Street hill between N. Butler and N. Pinckney Streets. A man with a f... |
| Date: | 07 28 1940 |
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| Description: | Paul Johnson (left) and James Borden (right) racing down Gorham Street at Madison's (Wisconsin) 1940 soap box derby. They have just left the starting ramp.... |
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