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Brick School and Students

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Description: View of a brick school building and a crowd of students, with two boys up in a tree. Other people are posing in some of the open windows of the school. Boy...
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Madison Soap Box Derby

Date: 07 24 1955
Description: Soap Box Derby race cars line up while participants and spectators look at the cars. Madison's Derby was held on East Washington Avenue leading from the Wi...
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Women and Young Girl Leaning on Fence

Date: 1897
Description: Ada Bass, the photographer's wife, leaning against a fence, next to daughter Everetta Bass as a young girl, along a dirt road. The photographer's sister, R...
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Madison Soap Box Derby

Date: 07 24 1949
Description: Cars line up at Shell Oil service pits on E. Gorham Street during the Madison Soap Box Derby. Drivers, and a crowd of people on the sidewalk are looking on...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Starting Ramp

Date: 07 28 1957
Description: Elevated view of the starting ramp for the Madison Soap Box Derby on East Washington Avenue, including the first block of South Butler Street. Van Steiner ...
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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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Syl with Group Watching Dog Perform

Date: 06 1903
Description: Syl and other children watch a dog perform with a barrel on a wooden sidewalk near a small building. Railroad tracks cross behind them, and power lines str...
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Group Watches Dog Jump Towards Aunt Helen

Date: 06 1903
Description: A group of children watching a performing dog jump towards aunt Helen. Railroad tracks, power lines and horse-drawn carriages are visible in he background.
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Syl with Group Watching Dog Perform

Date: 06 1903
Description: A group of people, Syl among them, watch a man with a performing dog in a wicker suitcase. Railroad tracks and power lines are in the background.
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Syl with Group Watching a Performing Dog

Date: 06 1903
Description: Syl, with a large group of children and adults, watches a trained dog perform. A man wearing a hat in the right foreground appears to be the trainer. Railr...
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Man and Boy Seated on Wagon Outside Residence

Date: 1911
Description: Man and boy, possibly father and son, ride on a large, flatbed horse-drawn wagon loaded with crates of produce. The wagon is on a street near a house and a...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Champion

Date: 07 22 1956
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...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Audience

Date: 07 19 1953
Description: View down the hill at the Madison Soap Box Derby on South Midvale Boulevard during a soap box derby race. One car is visible on the track and a large crowd...
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Group of Youth on Way to School

Date: 06 11 1920
Description: Four young boys walking on a dirt road in rural Cook County on their way to school. All are dressed similarly. Two older girls are also seen walking closel...
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Madison Soap Box Derby

Date: 07 28 1940
Description: Paul Johnson (left) and James Borden (right) racing down Gorham Street at Madison's (Wisconsin) 1940 soap box derby. They have just left the starting ramp....
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Bridgeport Hotel

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Description: The exterior of the Bridgeport Hotel. A man, boy, dog, and two women stand on the porch.
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Street Scene

Date: 1918
Description: View down road of children posing on the side of the road. Two people sit in an automobile. In the background are commercial buildings, and horse-drawn veh...
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People and Buggies Posing in Front of a House

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Description: On the far left a man and woman are posing sitting in a buggy pulled by a single horse. Next to them is a man posing sitting in a buggy pulled by a team of...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Bike Hosteling Scrapbook: First Hostel Trip

Date: 06 19 1940
Description: First page of the log book of bike hostel trips taken by participants in the Neighborhood House summer program for girls, with images of bicyclists posed b...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Bike Hosteling Scrapbook: 1941 Season

Date: 04 25 1941
Description: Page from the Neighborhood House log book for the first bike hosteling trip of the 1941 season to Sauk City, with three girls securing packs to a bike in f...

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