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| Date: | 06 18 1947 |
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| Description: | Ed Gesteland, who is fourteen years old, is shown working on his Soap Box derby racer in the basement of his home at 4221 Wanetah Trail. Behind him, with h... |
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| Description: | Drawing of trappers on leaving their hunting grounds. |
| Date: | 04 22 1948 |
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| Description: | Frank Meyers measuring the floorboard of his 1948 Soap Box Derby racer to see that it compares exactly with the full-scale plans he drew before starting to... |
| Date: | 05 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Roddy Botts, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Chellis Botts, shown adding a small piece of wood to the body of his 1948 racer. He had the most original design in the... |
| Date: | 06 23 1949 |
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| Description: | Soap Box Derby participant, Warren Slightam, age 13, with Marshall "Marsh" Parkinson, yard manager of the J.J. Fitzpatrick Lumber Company, which is sponsor... |
| Date: | 04 25 1970 |
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| Description: | A group of three men crowd around a campfire before much of the festival audience arrives. A large pile of firewood is on the left next to them. In the bac... |
| Date: | 06 28 1952 |
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| Description: | Two men from C.C. Collins and Sons, Inc. look over a color chart for their racers with two boys they are sponsoring in the soap box derby race. Left to rig... |
| Date: | 07 01 1952 |
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| Description: | Robert Timlin of the Timlin Lumber Company gives some pointers to Kenny Kelm, who will be sponsored by the lumber company in the upcoming soap box derby ra... |
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| Description: | View of group of people posing in a yard. A man is sitting surrounded by a woman, young girl and boy, and an older boy. The young girl is holding a hat and... |
| Date: | 12 1960 |
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| Description: | Scouts from Middleton Troop 40 sand wooden blocks to give to the pediatric section of Madison General Hospital. The wood was donated by Fish Lumber Co., Mi... |
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| Description: | View across street towards a boy posing sitting in profile on a horse in front of the building at 13 South First Street, which held the photography studio ... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Fishermen from the Frank Braeger fishing tugboat are standing for a group portrait in front of their fishing nets on Jones Island. |
| Date: | 03 27 1954 |
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| Description: | Sue Fehland from Wausau and Mary Heiser from Freeport, Illinois, are watching Ken Hauser from Ridgewood N.J., who is taking a turn at jacks while kneeling ... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | One of two images under the headline: "Trials of Pioneers Bring Families Closer Together." Original caption reads, in part: "Families are knit more closely... |
| Date: | 07 01 1940 |
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| Description: | Page of the log book of bike hostel trips taken by participants in the Neighborhood House summer program for girls, with four images from the trip and hand... |
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