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| Date: | 08 13 1931 |
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| Description: | Greg Kabat, University of Wisconsin football player, shovels dirt from the back of a truck at Camp Randall. |
| 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... |
| 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: | 06 14 1950 |
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| 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 |
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| 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: | 07 22 1951 |
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| Description: | Five of the winners in the Soap Box Derby competition pose with their prizes. Left to right are Billy McFarland, Darlington, winner of the best upholstery ... |
| Date: | 06 03 1952 |
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| Description: | One of the prizes for the thirteenth annual Madison Soap Box Derby is a twenty-piece Stanley tool set awarded by the Shell Oil Company. Looking at the tool... |
| Date: | 07 1950 |
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| Description: | Roddy Botts with the tool set he won for best constructed car in the 1950 Madison, Wisconsin soap box derby. |
| Date: | 06 26 1940 |
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| Description: | Page from the scrapbook of bike hosteling trips sponsored by Neighborhood House, with highlights from the second hostel trip to the Post Farm Hostel in Mad... |
| Date: | 06 26 1940 |
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| Description: | Girl (Theresa Castanga?) making adjustments to the front wheel of her bicycle on a bike hosteling trip in Madison sponsored by Neighborhood House. |
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| Description: | Boys working on various stages of woodwork projects, with two boys in the foreground kneeling by some wooden toy animals with jointed limbs. The settlement... |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of four campers seated at a wooden table and two campers standing behind them. They are working on camp arts and crafts projects. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the cast of the Paul Bunyan pageant. All of the campers are in costume, and are arranged in a semi-circle around some of the implements u... |
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| Description: | Page from Sue Ann Hackett Blue Album displaying four Joy Camps postcards of different colors with different scenes depicted on each. Each postcard reads, "... |
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| Description: | Page from Sue Ann Hackett Scrapbook displaying several photographs of Joy Camps counselor "Miss Rusty." Includes Miss Rusty handling the net on a tennis co... |
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| Description: | Page from Sue Ann Hackett Scrapbook displaying several photographs of Joy Camps activities. Includesa young camper with a hatchet and piece of wood; two ca... |
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