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| Description: | A long row of cars is lined up across the track on display. On the left side is the "Blitzen Benz". A grandstand is in the background. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | A two-passenger car with the number 13 on the front is going around the bend on a dirt race track. The guard rail fence is in the foreground. |
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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... |
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| Description: | Men and women are lined up in their parked cars to watch the State Fair automobile race. |
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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. |
| Date: | 05 04 1949 |
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| Description: | Harley Moore of Madison sits behind the steering wheel in his Technical Machine Service auto racer. Moore will race his car in the midget auto races held a... |
| Date: | 05 04 1949 |
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| Description: | Clarence Zimbrich of Sun Prairie stands in the middle of a dirt road with his arms raised. He is a feed mill operator and vice-president of the Sun Prairie... |
| Date: | 06 23 1949 |
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| Description: | Soap Box Derby participant, Warren Slightam, age 13, with Marshall "Marsh" Parkinson, yard manager of the J.J. Fitzpatrick Lumber Company, which is sponsor... |
| Date: | 06 29 1949 |
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| Description: | Madison Soap Box Derby participant Pierre Slightam, age 14, with Robert J. Connor, Jr., assistant manager of C.C. Collins and Son, Inc., 2308 University Av... |
| Date: | 07 05 1949 |
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| Description: | Don Jean Goodwin (left), who is a racer in the Soap Box Derby, with his sponsor, Sol Epstein from Madison Delivery Service. |
| Date: | 06 09 1949 |
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| Description: | Frankie Meyer, the 1948 Soap Box Derby champion, stands next to his Wisconsin State Journal-sponsored racer. He is wearing the shirt and helmet given to h... |
| Date: | 07 11 1949 |
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| Description: | Arnold Pederson, age 13, with his Soap Box Derby racer and sponsor, Leo Welch, owner of the Ace of Clubs restaurant located at 3520 East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 07 24 1949 |
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| Description: | A crowd watches as soap box derby cars get ready for a race and men check over the cars. A sign over the road reads, "Free Shellubrication" for Derby Entra... |
| Date: | 07 24 1949 |
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| Description: | A crowd looks on as boys in derby cars await the start of the Madison Soap Box Derby at the starting gate on East Gorham Street. |
| Date: | 07 24 1949 |
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| Description: | Pierre Slightam (right), winner of the 11th annual Madison Soap Box Derby, is congratulated by Warren Jollymore, director of the Wisconsin State Journal... |
| Date: | 07 24 1949 |
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| Description: | Soap Box Derby winners from a record entry of seventy-six boys. Left to right: Runner-up Dickie Lindauer; Pierre Slightam, winner, with Ralph Hult, preside... |
| Date: | 07 23 1949 |
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| Description: | Luanne Unbehaun of Richland Center is crowned Madison Soap Box Derby Princess by beauty queen Jackie Stafford. Looking on at right is Lee Baron of Baron's ... |
| 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: | Cars line up at Shell Oil service pits on E. Gorham Street during the Madison Soap Box Derby. Drivers, and a crowd of people on the sidewalk are looking on... |
| 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. |
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