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| Date: | 12 22 1956 |
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| Description: | Ruth Bass, 4216 Mandrake Road, receiving a clock radio as a prize in the Christmas outdoor home lighting contest from Lucien G. Schlimgen, Jr., president o... |
| Date: | 01 24 1953 |
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| Description: | Group of boy scouts lined up for Klondike Derby sled race, where the boys pulled the sleds, on Monona Golf Course. Nearly 300 scouts from the Dane County a... |
| Date: | 07 24 1955 |
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| Description: | The Soap Box Derby held on East Washington Avenue leading from the Wisconsin State Capitol. Shown are two boys in their racers on the starting ramp. Starte... |
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| Description: | Silhouetted in the dusk, skaters raced for the two mile title in the Great lakes championships at Eckel Park, West Allis. Verner Kappes, of West Allis, led... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Winner Melvin Walker at work during a sheep shearing competition. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for Farmall tractors manufactured by the International Harvester Company. Includes a photograph of a man in the seat of an F-20 tractor ... |
| Date: | 11 11 1944 |
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| Description: | Soldier standing next to paintings from the third all-soldier art contest at Truax Field. The paintings are produced by soldiers at the recreational art pr... |
| Date: | 03 15 1945 |
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| Description: | West High School basketball coach Willis Jones talking to team player Ray Lenahan, 438 Virginia Terrace, at the state basketball tournament. |
| Date: | 06 17 1945 |
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| Description: | Onlookers near a pond at the Retriever Dog Field Trials in Vilas Park. James Simpson, Jr., of Chicago, one of the judges, has his hand upraised to signal; ... |
| Date: | 06 17 1945 |
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| Description: | From the newspaper caption: Tony Bonovich's [dog,] "Nigger of Upham" won the Derby retriever trial Sunday [June 17, 1945] in Vilas Park. He is shown here w... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Alice in Dairyland 1960, Joan Engh, poses with a winner at a regional Junior Livestock Exposition. Joan went on to become Miss Wisconsin in 1962, and she w... |
| Date: | 08 11 1945 |
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| Description: | Frank "Moon" Molinaro, 540 State Street, (amateur) and Herb Spaanum, 240 East Mifflin (pro), golfers tied for the lead in the state pro-amateur golf meet a... |
| Date: | 08 11 1945 |
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| Description: | George Vitense, 118 North Hancock Street (pro) and William Garrott, 35 Lathrop Street (amateur), golfers tied for the lead in the state pro-amateur golf me... |
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| Description: | Jack Olson, Republican Party leader and owner of the Olson Boat Company of the Wisconsin Dells, with a group of Native American women who were winners in a... |
| Date: | 04 18 1946 |
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| Description: | Four men in discussion at the Wisconsin Barley Contest. |
| Date: | 10 20 1946 |
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| Description: | Betty Gene Gardner, Ridgeway, who was chosen Queen of America's Dairyland at the 1946 Wisconsin State Fair, is shown boarding a train for the Dairy Industr... |
| Date: | 03 28 1947 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the Madison Rifle Club team holding the Dick Falk trophy they recently won in the Falk Rifle Club's small bore tournament in Milwaukee. P... |
| Date: | 07 04 1922 |
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| Description: | Women participating in egg race game during 4th of July celebration on Madeline Island, Apostle Island. Included are ?,?, Harriet Webb, Peg Caswell and Dor... |
| Date: | 07 24 1947 |
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| Description: | Dane County Judge Fred Evans inspecting Pierre Slightam's racer, the Doodlebug, in his role as chief judge for the Derby. A dog is standing nearby. |
| Date: | 11 14 1947 |
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| Description: | Two women and a man standing next to a microphone at the WIBA radio studio. (Contest winner?) |
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