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| 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: | 08 22 1950 |
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| Description: | View of Main Street showing stores, people and vehicles. |
| Date: | 10 06 1950 |
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| Description: | Portrait of the Herman Fischer family. Emmy Lou, 16, and Herman, Jr., 20, are standing in the back row. Seated in the second row are Grandma Emma Fischer,... |
| Date: | 07 28 1957 |
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| Description: | Van Steiner, winner of the 1957 Madison Soap Box Derby, holding the trophy. Left to right: Larry Steiner, father of the winner; Don Knowles, general manage... |
| Date: | 10 19 1950 |
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| Description: | Eddie Withers, #11 on the University of Wisconsin football team, is shown with his 18 month old son, Eddie Withers III, after the Wisconsin team beat Iowa ... |
| 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: | 12 20 1950 |
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| Description: | A mother and daughter from the Thomas family sit in a chair beside a fireplace while looking at a nativity scene arranged on a chest of drawers. |
| Date: | 07 18 1951 |
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| Description: | Soap Box Derby Entrant, 11-year-old Johnny Huseboe, behind the wheel of a fire truck at No. 5 fire station, 2137 Atwood Avenue, along with four fire fighte... |
| 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 21 1951 |
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| Description: | Soap Box Derby winner Roddy Botts receives the Champion Chevrolet trophy from Ralph Hult, right, president of Hult's Capital Garage, during Madison's 12th ... |
| Date: | 01 07 1952 |
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| Description: | Four Cub Scouts painting milk pods as table decorations as den mother Mrytle Arnold is looking on. Scouts are, left to right: Dick Quale, David Arnold, Mic... |
| Date: | 01 07 1952 |
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| Description: | Cub Scout James Beckman, right, demonstrates tying knots to (from left): LaVern Wahlin, Bob Hilliard, John Streiff, and Billy Hoppe. Den mother Freda Hilli... |
| Date: | 03 06 1952 |
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| Description: | Peter Storch, engineer at Ann Emery hall, and his children are shown at the Milwaukee Road depot where they met their son and brother, Alois Storch with hi... |
| Date: | 04 11 1952 |
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| Description: | Rentschler's Greenhouse employee, Otto Wagner, holds Harold Kautzer, Jr., a 3-year-old neighborhood boy, to see and smell the easter lilies grown there. |
| Date: | 04 13 1952 |
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| Description: | Jim Huber, right, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mortimer Huber, is shown receiving a plaque from "Black Bart" an anonymous JCC member, for winning the annual JCC Hob... |
| 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: | 07 25 1954 |
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| Description: | Madison Soap Box Derby winner Phil Peckham accepting his trophy on Midvale Boulevard. |
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