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Home-Built Heath

Date: 1932
Description: Ray and Carl Breecher's Heath parasol monoplane while still under construction in their father's garage. Despite extensive modification, the plane crashed ...
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Martin, Bill and Bruce Brown with their Lionel Train Set

Date: 1962
Description: Crewman are Brown and sons, Bill, 13 (right), and Bruce, 9. They plan to call their road the MBB Granite Railroad--for Martin, Bill, Bruce, and Montello, w...
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Madison Soap Box Derby, Car Construction

Date: 06 18 1947
Description: Ed Gesteland, who is fourteen years old, is shown working on his Soap Box derby racer in the basement of his home at 4221 Wanetah Trail. Behind him, with h...
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Madison Soap Box Derby, Car Construction

Date: 04 09 1948
Description: Building Soap Box Derby racers in the workshop of the Neighborhood House, 768 West Washington Avenue, are Virgil Johnson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Johnso...
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Madison Soap Box Derby, Car Construction

Date: 04 22 1948
Description: Frank Meyers measuring the floorboard of his 1948 Soap Box Derby racer to see that it compares exactly with the full-scale plans he drew before starting to...
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Madison Soap Box Derby, Car Construction

Date: 05 06 1948
Description: Roddy Botts, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Chellis Botts, shown adding a small piece of wood to the body of his 1948 racer. He had the most original design in the...
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Madison Soap Box Derby, Car Construction

Date: 06 29 1948
Description: Joe Puccio, 13-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Lucian C. Puccio, working with a drill press in the shop of Henry Peiss to construct his soap box racer. The Ne...
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Madison Soap Box Derby, Car Construction

Date: 07 10 1948
Description: Yardman Don Hoffman helps Bill Morton pick out plywood for his soap box racer at C.C. Colling Lumber Yard on University Avenue.
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Madison Soap Box Derby

Date: 06 23 1949
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...
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Soap Box Derby

Date: 1955
Description: Pages 16 and 17 from the Official Rule Book for the 1955 Soap Box Derby showing a deconstructed car.

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