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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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Marshall Boys Basketball Champions

Date: 02 14 1950
Description: Marshall high school gained basketball title honors in the Madison Suburban League for the sixth time in the 24-year history of the circuit. Coach Leonard ...
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Rotary Club Spelling Bee

Date: 05 03 1950
Description: Six grade school pupils defeated six Rotary adults 37 to 31 at the Rotary Club Spelling Bee at the Hotel Loraine. The spellers, Rotarians, and school child...
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Speaking for Democracy Speech Contest

Date: 11 14 1951
Description: Portrait of two of the winners in the "Speaking for Democracy" speech contest for high school students. At the left is Norman Barton, West High School, fou...
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Speaking for Democracy Speech Contest

Date: 11 14 1951
Description: Portrait of three of the winners in the "Speaking for Democracy" high school speech contest. From left are: Sandra Johnson, Cambridge High School, fifth pl...
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Maren Hetland

Date: 03 26 1952
Description: Spelling champions from twenty-three Madison public and parochial schools will take part in the city spelling finals of the Wisconsin State Journal ...
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Badger Spelling Bee

Date: 04 05 1952
Description: Group portrait of eight finalists in the Badger Spelling Bee. First row, l to r: Kay Krogem, Jefferson, 8th place; Champion Beth Knope, Madison; Beverly H...
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Badger Spelling Bee Winner

Date: 04 25 1952
Description: Beth Knope, 13-year-old champion of the Wisconsin State Journal's 1952 Badger Spelling Bee, with Walter W. Engelke, the principal of Nakoma school, ...
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Girls' Relay Race

Date: 1913
Description: Students and teachers gathered in a field for the girls' relay race at an annual school festival in Belwood Park.
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Eight Top Spellers in the State

Date: 05 03 1958
Description: Group portrait of the eight finalists in the 1958 Badger State Spelling Bee. All of them received prizes. Shown, left to right, are: Eddie Thompson, Elroy,...
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Helen Farnsworth Mears Art Contest

Date: 03 23 1960
Description: Randy Olson holds his fourth-prize winning landscape painting at the Helen Farnsworth Mears art contest for eighth graders. Admiring the painting are three...
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Helen Farnsworth Mears Art Contest

Date: 03 23 1960
Description: Contest judge Mrs. Daisy Breyer (left) and Central High school art teacher Mrs. Merrie Wisiol (right) admire the painting of Beverly Fries, a fifth-place w...
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West High School Spelling Bee

Date: 03 16 1961
Description: Three contestants compete in the annual Madison West High School spelling bee. Left to right are Gretchen Crownhart, Jim Underkofler, and Bob Eccles.
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Teen-age Baking Contest

Date: 11 18 1964
Description: Richard Krejcarek, age eighteen from Manitowoc and first-year student at the Madison Vocational, Technical, and Adult school, is the winner of the teen-age...
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Winners of 1958 Helen Farnsworth Mears Art Awards

Date: 03 26 1958
Description: 8th-Grade winners of the 1958 Helen Farnsworth Mears art contest. The contest started in 1927 to honor the memory of the Oshkosh-born sculptor to encourag...
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Optimists International Oratory Contest

Date: 05 24 1958
Description: Three Midwest boys compete in the annual District 9 Optimists International oratory contest held in Madison. The finalists were, (L-R): James Posey, Iowa C...
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Formal Dress Contest

Date: 11 24 1954
Description: Two young women are holding up four sketches of dresses. Caption reads: "Modest formal dresses were sketched in a contest for pupils of Milwaukee Ca...

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