Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections
Filter: Categories of Wisconsin Historical Images
Filter: Subject of Work
Filter: Subject of contests
Filter: Subject of recreation
Filter: Subject of intellectual life
| Date: | 01 08 1932 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Display of some of the 5,000 entries that came into the "Capital Times" office for the first "Cut Out Puzzle" contest of the "Boots" character from the "Bo... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | The country meets the city as a "Milwaukee Journal" newsboy admires the calf entered in the animal judging competition by a young boy from the country. |
| Date: | 1959 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Slightly elevated view of one competitor parading her animal for the judges at the Southern Wisconsin Junior Livestock Competition, while Alice in Dairylan... |
| Date: | 07 10 1948 |
|---|---|
| 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: | 04 05 1949 |
|---|---|
| Description: | A.F. Ketterer, principal of Franklin elementary school is at his desk looking over Wisconsin State Journal Badger Spelling Bee material with two of h... |
| Date: | 06 15 1948 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Curlee Seals, Jr. discussing plans for his 1949 Soap Box Derby racer with three members of the Madison Junior Chamber of Commerce, Curlee's sponsor for the... |
| Date: | 06 14 1950 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Hildur Hanson, receptionist in the "Wisconsin State Journal" editorial rooms, looks over the 25-piece tool kit which will be awarded for the best construct... |
| Date: | 07 07 1950 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Madison Soap Box Derby racer John Bock of 19 Paget Road, right, is shown prizes to be awarded to the top racers by Jean Behling, staff writer for the "Wisc... |
| Date: | 08 02 1950 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Larry Laverty of Mineral Point accepts a sports jacket as the prize for being the runner-up in Class B of the Madison Soap Box Derby. Presenting the jacket... |
| Date: | 08 02 1950 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Jerry Wagner of Mineral Point accepts a check from Harlan C. Nicholls, a cashier at the First National Bank of Madison, for the sportsmanship award of the ... |
| Date: | 07 28 1957 |
|---|---|
| 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: | 01 14 1954 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Nancy Staudenraus, State Journal librarian and assistant Spelling Bee director, looks over 1954 Spelling Bee pamphlets as they come off the press. Ernest P... |
| Date: | 06 29 1954 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Portrait of the eleven Wisconsin State Journal newspaper carriers who won three-day trips to Chicago and Milwaukee in a subscription contest sponsor... |
| Date: | 03 27 1957 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Group portrait of five Madison public school students, winners of the 1957 Helen Farnsworth Mears art contest. Left to right: Dave Olson, East High; Allen ... |
| Date: | 06 30 1954 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Madison Newspaper, Inc. hosts a picnic to recognize newspaper carriers, each an individual businessman, who carry the papers in any kind of weather. Duane ... |
| Date: | 04 23 1957 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Three Wisconsin State Journal carriers entered in a magazine subscription contest get a pep talk about getting subscriptions from Bob Neuendorf, a d... |
| Date: | 04 23 1957 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Jack Kitchens, a district manager for the Wisconsin State Journal, explains how the contest to get new magazine subscriptions works to three newspap... |
| Date: | 04 23 1957 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Wisconsin State Journal carriers Jim Grosse (left) and Mike Ferm dream of winning the top prize in the magazine subscription contest — a one-week va... |
| Date: | 04 23 1957 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Jim Kennedy, Tom Borchert, and Eugene Nelson (left to right) inspect some of the many prizes for the magazine subscription contest sponsored by the Wisc... |
| Date: | 08 21 1957 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Looking through hundreds of entries received for the Wisconsin State Journal's cookbook recipe contest are Jo Ann Beier (left), WSJ women's editor, ... |
If you didn't find the material you searched for, our Library Reference Staff can help.
Call our reference desk at 608-264-6535 or email us at: