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| 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: | 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: | 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: | Madison Soap Box Derby Parade of Youth with the VFW Drum and Bugle Corps on East Washington Avenue. Club Royal and Blied Printing Company is visible in the... |
| Date: | 07 24 1949 |
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| Description: | Madison Soap Box Derby Parade with the VFW Color Guard. Kroger Super Market and Uptown Liquor Store, located on the 100 block of East Washington Avenue, ar... |
| Date: | 07 24 1949 |
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| Description: | Soap Box Derby Parade of Youth showing the Beaver Dam float and those from nearby communities. The Uptown Liquor Store and other businesses along the 100 b... |
| Date: | 05 30 1938 |
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| Description: | A photographer uses the bed of an International truck parked on the outskirts of a crowd to take photographs at the Indianapolis 500 race. Other photograph... |
| Date: | 04 12 1950 |
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| Description: | Chuck Dykman, shown with his parents Melvin and Ruth Dykman, signs up for the 1950 Soap Box Derby at Hult's Chevrolet garage. Don Knowles, vice-president ... |
| Date: | 05 30 1950 |
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| Description: | Left to right are: Don Spring, 13-year-old Soap Box Derby racer; his dad, Fireman A.E. Spring; and Lieut. Wilson H. Donkle, chairman of the fireman's Soap ... |
| 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 28 1957 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the starting ramp for the Madison Soap Box Derby on East Washington Avenue, including the first block of South Butler Street. Van Steiner ... |
| Date: | 07 28 1957 |
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| Description: | Don Knowles, general manager of Holt's Capital Garage and cosponsor of the race, presenting trophy to the winner Van Steiner. Buildings in the background a... |
| Date: | 07 28 1957 |
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| Description: | The winner of the 1957 Soap Box Derby, Van Steiner, receiving champion's kiss from Barbara Harned, wife of "Wisconsin State Journal writer, who was a forme... |
| Date: | 07 28 1957 |
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| Description: | The Marine Corps Reserve built platforms on their jeeps to move the soap box cars back up the East Washington Avenue hill. They are shown loading the Porta... |
| Date: | 07 28 1957 |
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| Description: | Madison Junior Boy Scout Drum & Bugle Corps march in the pre-Soap Box Derby race parade on East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 07 28 1957 |
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| Description: | Soap box derby contestants parade up East Washington Avenue before the race to receive their entry prize, a tool kit. |
| Date: | 07 28 1957 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Soap Box Derby staging area and starting line on 100 and 200 blocks of East Washington Avenue between South Butler and South Pinckney Stre... |
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