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Explore more than 100,000 collection items online through the Society’s digital collections. For over two decades, we’ve been scanning, photographing, and digitizing materials from our collections, creating a rich and growing digital archive that brings history closer to you.
The Wisconsin Historical Society offers an ever-growing digital collection. Digitized materials reflect the full range of items in the collections including photographs, letters, newsletters, films, posters, architectural drawings, menus, and ephemera.
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Madison Soap Box Derby Champion
June 9, 1949
Frankie Meyer, the 1948 Soap Box Derby champion, stands next to his Wisconsin State Journal-sponsored racer. He is wearing the shirt and helmet given to him when he competed at Derby Downs in Akro...
Madison Soap Box Derby
1950
Thirteen year-old Philip Lenhart of Madison, Wisconsin, sitting in his new and improved soap box derby car. In the 1950 Madison race held on July 23, 1950, Philip was the runner-up in the class A d...
Madison Soap Box Derby, Mineral Point Racers
July 22, 1951
Outdoor group portrait of Soap Box Derby racers from Mineral Point.
Madison Soap Box Derby Champion
August 1946
Paul R. Anderson of DeForest, Wisconsin, winner of the 1946 Madison Soap Box Derby, who went on to race at the All-American Soap Box Derby in Akron, Ohio. He is shown holding his Madison trophy an...
Madison Soap Box Derby
July 15, 1948
Soap Box Derby racer Bobby Holmes seated in car outdoors on grass.
Madison Soap Box Derby
July 23, 1949
Two racers streak down the soap box derby track on E. Gorham Street as a large crowd watches from behind a fence along the sidewalk.
