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Queen of America's Dairyland

Date: 10 20 1946
Description: Betty Gene Gardner, Ridgeway, who was chosen Queen of America's Dairyland at the 1946 Wisconsin State Fair, is shown boarding a train for the Dairy Industr...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Sponsors

Date: 06 16 1948
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...
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Winners of the Firemen's Poster Contest

Date: 11 09 1948
Description: Group portrait of the winners of the Madison Fire Fighters union poster contest, held in conjunction with the annual Firemen's ball. Left to right in the f...
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Newsboys Bus Trip

Date: 05 29 1950
Description: 101 Madison Newspapers, Inc. carrier boys from Madison and southwestern Wisconsin stand by three charter buses before the start of their trip to the Memori...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Champion

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...
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Wisconsin State Journal Newspaper Carriers

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...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Starting Ramp

Date: 07 22 1954
Description: City parks personnel, left to right: Carl J. Schultz, Herbert Gorman, Daniel Finn and Richard Gilliard put up the starting ramp on South Midvale Boulevard ...
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Top Carriers Leave on Washington Trip

Date: 05 18 1956
Description: Thirty carrier boys for Madison Newspapers wave goodbye before leaving on a train for a four-day vacation trip to Washington D.C. These boys won the trip b...
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Subscription Contest Winners

Date: 06 23 1959
Description: 44 young carrier salesmen for the Wisconsin State Journal posing in front of a bus that will take them off "for three days packed full of fun in Chi...

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