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| Date: | 09 05 1943 |
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| Description: | Gosling's Sales and Service display at West Side Business Men's Association harvest festival featuring coffee grinders, meat grinders and Holcomb & Hoke Ma... |
| Date: | 07 1905 |
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| Description: | Edgar and Jennie Krueger outdoors in the yard. Edgar is sitting on a concrete planter holding a kitten in his lap. Jennie is kneeling in the grass weighing... |
| Date: | 11 24 1944 |
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| Description: | A football player stands on scale weighing in at 183 lbs. A second player is standing nearby. |
| Date: | 11 24 1944 |
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| Description: | A football player standing on a scale. |
| Date: | 09 19 1952 |
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| Description: | Brian Lange, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Lange, Portage, being weighed by Inez Lee, assistant chairman of the American Legion Baby Show and Child Talent Cont... |
| Date: | 11 23 1944 |
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| Description: | Ten individual portraits of University of Wisconsin football players each standing on a Toledo No-Springs scale. Included are: Joe Campbell, John Davey, Cl... |
| Date: | 11 24 1944 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin football player Jack Mead standing on a scale for weigh-in. Mead went on to participate in the 1945 Pro Football College Draft and... |
| Date: | 11 24 1944 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin football player Nick Holmes standing on a scale for weigh-in. |
| Date: | 11 24 1944 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin football player Clarence Esser standing on a scale for weigh-in. |
| Date: | 11 24 1944 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin football player Roger Laubenheimer standing on a scale at weigh-in. |
| Date: | 07 26 1947 |
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| Description: | Weigh-in for Soap Box Derby entrants. Pierre Slightam, in striped shirt, has his car the Doodlebug weighed. The floor of the car was made from an old iro... |
| 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: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Annabel Nelson places three rubber toys on a scale, presumably to donate them to the war effort, while F.E. Williams looks on. The two crouch on the groun... |
| Date: | 07 20 1952 |
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| Description: | Dick Dummershausen, seated in his racer, is weighed prior to the Madison Soap Box Derby. The official weighmaster is Joe Marx (right) from Toledo Scales Co... |
| Date: | 01 17 1954 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Oscar Dary at a fish weighing station. |
| Date: | 07 22 1954 |
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| Description: | Floyd Klahn (left), Dale Ross, and B.L. Macken stand by a new electronic scale used to weigh Madison Soap Box Derby entries. |
| Date: | 09 11 1954 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin football captain Gary Messner steps on the scale as coach Ivan Williamson looks on. |
| Date: | 09 11 1954 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin football fullback Alan Ameche stands on a scale and points to his 210-pound weight as coach Ivan Williamson looks on. |
| Date: | 09 11 1954 |
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| Description: | The heaviest member of the University of Wisconsin football team, tackle Jerry Cvengros from Ironwood, Michigan, tips the scale at 261 pounds. |
| Date: | 09 11 1954 |
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| Description: | The lightest member of the University of Wisconsin football team, halfback Ken Hofer from Wallace, Michigan, weighs-in at 157 pounds. |
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