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| Date: | 05 06 1934 |
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| Description: | Pilot Orland G. Corben accepts the winner's trophy at the Kroger Air Show in Madison from Kroger Manager D.V. McPeek. Also in the photograph is Tommy Hain... |
| Date: | 12 15 1913 |
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| Description: | A horse-drawn wagon, filled with University of Wisconsin students dressed as clowns, proceeds along a Madison street as part of a parade. Spectators line ... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Hunter shows a dead rabbit to a man on a Farmall H tractor and a boy in a wagon full of pumpkins. The caption reads: "Mr. [William] Foreman is on the tract... |
| Date: | 05 14 1944 |
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| Description: | Linda Seed, lifeguard, is removing sand from the eye of John Hilhard with the help of Jackie Klopp, who is handing her an ampule of olive oil to soothe Joh... |
| Date: | 05 14 1944 |
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| Description: | Lifeguard Georgia Haas is applying artificial respiration to Lewis Noonan at the beach. |
| Date: | 12 21 1944 |
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| Description: | Ellen Jenson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gerhardt Jenson, Edgerton, with store clerk, Jeannine Butler, in the doll section of the toy department at Wolff-Kub... |
| Date: | 06 16 1948 |
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| Description: | Several members of Local 311, Madison Firemen's union, are posed around Dick Lerwick, whom the union is sponsoring in the 1948 Soap Box Derby. Kneeling Ed... |
| Date: | 07 10 1948 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of eight veteran Soap Box Derby racers who will be making their second or third attempts to win the city championship. They are shown liste... |
| Date: | 08 31 1948 |
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| Description: | Madison Labor officials riding on a tiny train at the 6-day Labor Festival at Olbrich Park. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Fundraising booth of the United Temperance Movement of Wisconsin at the Wisconsin State Fair. At that booth one could purchase soft drinks, milk, and "fir... |
| Date: | 08 05 1927 |
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| Description: | A man uses a McCormick-Deering 10-20 industrial tractor to pull a wagon at the Sells Floto circus. Children and adults are walking nearby, and a tent and l... |
| Date: | 07 28 1957 |
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| Description: | The winner of the 1957 Soap Box Derby, Van Steiner, receiving champion's kiss from Barbara Harned, wife of "Wisconsin State Journal writer, who was a forme... |
| Date: | 09 1903 |
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| Description: | Harry Dankoler, wearing a hat and holding the shutter release mechanism in his right hand, is stepping in to stop a possibly posed fight between Syl and Ba... |
| Date: | 07 18 1937 |
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| Description: | Roundy Coughlin handing Madison soap box derby champion Ken Johnson, age 15, the M.E. Coyle trophy while the crowd applauds in the background. The rac... |
| Date: | 07 09 1919 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a crowd gathered for Picnic Day at an International Harvester Company demonstration farm. Automobiles are parked in the foreground and alo... |
| Date: | 08 1951 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of citizens of Akron welcoming city champions and visiting celebrities to the All-American Soap Box Derby in front of the Mayflower Hotel. A ... |
| Date: | 05 29 1998 |
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| Description: | "Jen Hillbert serves us food at Ledgeview Lanes. Perch are $7.95. We vote them 4.3 Stars." Left to right; Rudy Heinecke, Ralph "Buddy" Ruecker, Kay Hren, C... |
| Date: | 05 01 1938 |
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| Description: | May Day parade with a closeup of a "memorial" float for company unions. A man leans on the parked float. The float features a faux grave and the gravestone... |
| Date: | 08 27 1910 |
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| Description: | A group portrait of members and families of the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipefitting Industry, Local 118. The g... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Obreros Unidos (United Workers) migrant farm worker union members at a Bancroft baseball game. Children sit on top of the dugout to watch. Adult men are st... |
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