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| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | A crowd surrounds a man as he stands atop a tree trunk swinging his axe in a woodchopping contest. |
| Date: | 06 22 1933 |
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| Description: | Harold Knudsen sitting on the National Junior Racer outside the Capitol Theatre, the prize for a contest conducted by the Fiore Coal and Oil Co., Phillips ... |
| Date: | 03 24 1933 |
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| Description: | Bobbie Thorpe is sitting in "Madison's smallest real car, a National Junior Racer" to be given away to the child with the most "votes." Votes can be obtain... |
| Date: | 05 27 1948 |
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| Description: | Freddy Fleury, 14, of 210 N. Paterson Street, talks over plans for his 1948 Soap Box Derby racer with Master Sgt. Wilfred W. Wall at the U.S. Army & Air Fo... |
| 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 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... |
| Date: | 07 22 1956 |
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| Description: | Soap Box Derby cars lined up in their "service pits" before the race on East Washington Avenue. The Wisconsin State Capitol is in the background. |
| Date: | 06 12 1952 |
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| Description: | Robert J. Widmer accepts the keys for a new Nash Rambler that he won for his entry in the window display contest for Lee hats. His display was named the be... |
| Date: | 06 17 1952 |
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| Description: | Forbes-Meagher Music Co., 27 W. Main Street, won a trophy in a nation-wide window display contest. A.C. Cory (right) presenting the trophy to Harold Frye (... |
| Date: | 08 21 1964 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Harold Olson examines the beards of Leon Dunbar, Louis Christianson, Dick Toycen and Perley Entzminger. They are standing on the 500 block of Main Str... |
| Date: | 03 1983 |
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| Description: | "Runners are poised to take off in the 5 mile Chili Run. There were 197 entrants, some from as far away as Libertyville, IL." |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a crowd of teenage boys racing down the street during the Hustler Harvest Festival. Both sides of the street are lined with crowd... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A group of boys is racing down Hustler's Main Street during the Harvest Festival. The finish line is in the distance at the far end of the street. Crowds s... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A laughing and smiling crowd of people surrounds a sack race at the Harvest Festival. Across the street is a storefront with a sign for DeLaval Cream Separ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Four men struggle to move barrels down the dirt main street of Hustler. It looks like a close race. The large crowd watches attentively. Across the street ... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | View down unpaved Main Street of a group of men racing after a pig during the Hustler Harvest Festival. On the right is the Nash Service Station and the M.... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A group of young boys races down the street as a large crowd watches. The Hustler State Bank is across the street on the right. A group of people stand in ... |
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