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| Date: | 05 02 1956 |
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| Description: | Father demonstrates controls of a mini-race car as his daughter sits in the car. |
| 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... |
| 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 is racer Kenny Minett from Richland Center posing in his ... |
| Date: | 07 24 1955 |
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| Description: | A contestant in Madison's Soap Box Derby in his racer on the starting ramp with crowd in the background. The Derby was held on East Washington Avenue leadi... |
| Date: | 07 24 1955 |
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| Description: | Soap Box Derby race cars line up while participants and spectators look at the cars. Madison's Derby was held on East Washington Avenue leading from the Wi... |
| Date: | 07 24 1955 |
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| Description: | Madison Soap Box Derby champion, David Laverty of Mineral Point, posing with the plaque and his brother Larry who is a past champion. In the background is ... |
| Date: | 10 02 1912 |
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| Description: | African American heavyweight boxing champion, Jack Johnson, drove up to Milwaukee from his home in Chicago to watch the Vanderbilt Cup race on October 2, 1... |
| Date: | 07 26 1948 |
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| Description: | The 1948 runner-up of the Soap Box Derby is Tommy Smrekar, son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Smrekar, Ft. Atkinson. He is shown sitting in his racer, "The Prospe... |
| Date: | 10 05 1912 |
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| Description: | Bob Burman, left, leans on a #31 Benz race car. Caleb Bragg, winner of Grand Prize Race in 1912, on road course in Wauwatosa, faces the camera. The other t... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Driver Spencer Washart on left, with John Genter (the mechanic) sitting next to him. Washart has 'Mercedes" written across his shirt. Another car is behind... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | The man in the goggles on the right is Teddy Tetzlaff; possibly at the Vanderbilt Cup Race. The other men are unidentified. In the background is the grands... |
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| Description: | A line of cars ready for the start of a race, possibly taking place at the State Fair. Spectators are in the background. |
| 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: | 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: | Seventy-six derby car drivers march behind leader Frankie Meyers on East Gorham Street during the Soap Box Derby Parade of Youth. |
| Date: | 07 24 1949 |
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| Description: | Madison Soap Box Derby Sportsmanship Award winners with County Traffic Officer, Charles O'Brien, presenting awards to Dickie Wold of LaFarge and Frank Bryl... |
| Date: | 07 23 1949 |
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| Description: | Ted Ryan being weighed with his racing car. Their combined weight was just under the 250-pound limit. Left to right are Weighmaster Frankie Meyers, 1948 Ma... |
| Date: | 07 28 1957 |
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| Description: | The car and driver that won the Madison Soap Box Derby in 1957 at the starting line. The car is called "Phillipson Garage" and the driver is Van Steiner of... |
| 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. |
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