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| Date: | 08 17 1957 |
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| Description: | Fourteen-year-old Dorothy Magarich proudly displays her pie that won a blue ribbon at the Wisconsin State Fair. |
| Date: | 03 22 1949 |
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| Description: | The Blessed Sacrament Parent Teacher Association sponsored a crafts and hobby show. There were 148 pupils participating with a variety of entries. The winn... |
| Date: | 04 05 1949 |
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| Description: | A.F. Ketterer, principal of Franklin elementary school is at his desk looking over Wisconsin State Journal Badger Spelling Bee material with two of h... |
| Date: | 04 18 1949 |
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| Description: | After four weeks of qualifying play, the champion of the Southern Wisconsin shuffleboard tournament was to be declared the following Sunday afternoon and n... |
| Date: | 04 20 1949 |
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| Description: | Wrenn O'Connell and his wife Margaret practice for the Badger State Spelling Bee with their daughter, Margaret, while sitting on a living room couch. Marga... |
| Date: | 06 15 1948 |
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| Description: | Curlee Seals, Jr. discussing plans for his 1949 Soap Box Derby racer with three members of the Madison Junior Chamber of Commerce, Curlee's sponsor for the... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Ward Love, winner of a Farmall-12, stands next to his prize in a tent at the Indianapolis State Fair. The sign on the tractor reads: "This Farmall 12 was ... |
| Date: | 06 23 1949 |
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| Description: | Cornelius "Connie" Ryan, Madison Soap Box Derby participant, receiving money from Jim Schmitz, a representative of Connie's sponsor, The Hub, 22 West Miffl... |
| Date: | 06 28 1949 |
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| Description: | Selecting material for building his Soap Box Derby racer is Larry Johnson, 14, of Stoughton. Larry is being sponsored by the Thomas Oscar and Son Ford gara... |
| 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 14 1949 |
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| Description: | Two men from Hult's Chevrolet consult with two youth on plans for a Soap Box Derby racer. |
| Date: | 06 27 1949 |
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| Description: | East-Central golf tournament flight winners, first row: Carl Handke, Edgerton, Norman Stensaas, Stoughton; Robert Tensfeldt, Jefferson; Harley Graf, Lake M... |
| 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: | 06 05 1949 |
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| Description: | Members of the planning committee for the Wisconsin Women's Golf Association state tournament to be held at the Maple Bluff Country Club. From left are Mrs... |
| Date: | 06 05 1949 |
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| Description: | Four Maple Bluff Country Club women golfers who will participate in the Wisconsin Women's Golf Association state tournament to be held at the country club.... |
| 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 07 1949 |
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| Description: | A man, probably Ross Gordon or Pat Hernon, stands at a WKOW microphone while acting as the announcer for the Soap Box Derby. |
| Date: | 07 09 1949 |
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| Description: | A Soap Box Derby announcer (either Lon Landman or Dwaine Tucker) sitting at a WIBA microphone. |
| Date: | 07 05 1949 |
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| Description: | Looking over plans for a Soap Box Derby are volunteers Rolf Anderson, left, son of Mr. and Mrs. A.L.F. Anderson, DeForest, and Bobby Holm, son of Mr. and M... |
| Date: | 07 08 1949 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Dana J. Dillon, advertising manager for Baron Brothers department store, 14-18 West Mifflin Street, holds a dress from the Baron's children's departme... |
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