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| Date: | 06 15 1948 |
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| 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: | 08 03 1949 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Charles Slightam and her grandsons, Pierre, left, and Warren Slightam, right. Pierre, 15, came in first at the recent Madison Soap Box Derby and will ... |
| Date: | 04 29 1950 |
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| Description: | Spelling bee champion Arlene Brown of Janesville holding her trophy. Smiling on the right is her eighth grade teacher at St. Mary's Catholic school, Siste... |
| Date: | 08 02 1950 |
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| 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: | 11 14 1951 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 03 26 1952 |
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| Description: | Spelling champions from twenty-three Madison public and parochial schools will take part in the city spelling finals of the Wisconsin State Journal ... |
| Date: | 04 05 1952 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Beth Knope, winner of the 1952 Badger Spelling Bee, holding her trophy and standing between her teacher Floy Kendrick, on the left, and h... |
| Date: | 04 05 1952 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 07 22 1956 |
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| Description: | Madison Soap Box Derby winner Alan Strauss holding his trophy and standing with his family on East Washington Avenue. The Wisconsin State Capitol is in the... |
| Date: | 07 25 1954 |
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| Description: | Madison Soap Box Derby winner Phil Peckham accepting his trophy on Midvale Boulevard. |
| Date: | 08 1951 |
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| Description: | Madison, Wisconsin Champion Roddy Botts with a volunteer at the starting line of the All-American Soap Box Derby at Derby Downs. |
| Date: | 2010 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Maija Liimatainen of Monroe, Wisconsin with her soap box derby car posed on the racing hill at Derby Downs, Akron, Ohio. Maija won the super st... |
| Date: | 08 11 1940 |
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| Description: | Thirteen year-old James Borden (standing in the middle) of Madison, Wisconsin, the 1940 Madison, Wisconsin soap box derby champion, waiting for his turn to... |
| Date: | 03 30 1954 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Susan Hamre, Lowell School, one of nine individual Madison school spelling bee champions. The other students included Joyce Hoffman, St. Bernar... |
| Date: | 05 11 1954 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Jeffrey Hansen (left), Harold Joyce, and winner James R. Green, finalists in the oratorical contest sponsored by the West Side Optimist C... |
| Date: | 03 31 1959 |
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| Description: | Four Madison Newspapers, Inc., carrier salesmen (or newspaper home delivery boys) looking over possible awards for new subscriptions, such as prizes, cash,... |
| Date: | 03 23 1960 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 05 14 1960 |
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| Description: | Top two winners of the 1960 Madison championship spelling bee are shown with the master pronouncer. Left to right: Susan Towner, runner-up; Otto Ritzenthal... |
| Date: | 07 04 1961 |
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| Description: | Donald Jorgenson and his daughter Ann participating in a contest as part of a Fourth of July celebration at Burrows Beach. They are eating a doughnut on a ... |
| Date: | 04 23 1957 |
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| 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... |
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