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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: | 07 09 1949 |
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| Description: | A Soap Box Derby announcer (either Lon Landman or Dwaine Tucker) sitting at a WIBA microphone. |
| Date: | 07 23 1949 |
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| Description: | Soap Box Derby officials and judges for the 1949 derby are pictured in a group portrait. Left to right, they are John Hubbins, cashier of the American Exch... |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 08 04 1951 |
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| Description: | Madison Soap Box Derby champion, 15-year-old Roddy Botts (second from left), with his family mapping the route they will take on their motor trip to the na... |
| 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: | 08 1951 |
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| Description: | "Welcome" volunteers at the All-American Soap Box Derby hand out a pair of jeans and a Hawaiian shirt to each city champion shortly after they arrive in Ak... |
| 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: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | Van Steiner (15 years-old) of Argyle, Wisconsin, the 1957 Madison, Wisconsin soap box derby champion, working on the steering of his Wisconsin State Journa... |
| Date: | 07 25 1954 |
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| Description: | Guy Beaumont of Madison sits atop a ladder to watch the races at the 1954 Madison soap box derby. |
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