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| 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: | 09 11 1947 |
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| Description: | Visiting Nurse Service, sponsored by Attic Angels, at a child health center at Emerson School. This center is one of five child health centers sponsored by... |
| Date: | 01 1948 |
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| Description: | Two men in a laboratory weighing rats at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. |
| Date: | 01 14 1949 |
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| Description: | Dorothy Hussemann, associate professor of home economics at the University of Wisconsin, (left) addressing her class on the technique of weighing meat. At ... |
| 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 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: | 1997 |
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| Description: | Hmong farm family selling vegetables on Mifflin Street on the Capitol Square at Madison's Farmer's Market. |
| Date: | 10 06 1953 |
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| Description: | Joy Morrison dresses in costume while working in an old-time drug store at the Wisconsin Historical Society Museum. The pharmaceutical items were used in W... |
| Date: | 01 17 1954 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Oscar Dary at a fish weighing station. |
| 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. |
| Date: | 07 21 1956 |
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| Description: | Alan Strauss stands with his derby car on the scale while Phil Peckham (left) records the weight; the boy and car cannot weigh more than 250 pounds. At rig... |
| Date: | 09 08 1956 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin football player Gene Melvin weighs in at 163 pounds and is the lightest player on the 1956 team. At right is the Wisconsin State... |
| Date: | 09 08 1956 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin football player Bob Nelson weighs in at 239 pounds and is the heaviest player on the 1956 team. At right is the Wisconsin State ... |
| Date: | 02 20 1960 |
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| Description: | Mike Merkle, left, packs away his catch after weighing in at the annual Yahara Fisherman's Club Percharee on Lake Mendota. With Mike are his sister, Marcia... |
| Date: | 07 01 1961 |
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| Description: | Four members of the Bethany Methodist Youth Fellowship "weigh in" to determine what their contribution will be to the United Nations Children's Fund. Karen... |
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