Date: | 10 1912 |
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Description: | Slightly elevated view of drivers making last minute adjustments to their automobiles at the start of the Milwaukee Grand Prize race (later called the Amer... |
Date: | 05 02 1956 |
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Description: | Father demonstrates controls of a mini-race car as his daughter sits in the car. |
Date: | 06 11 1945 |
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Description: | A driver sits in a small promotional race car with a "Calvert Special" logo on its side at Plymouth Liquors, 2717 Atwood Avenue. |
Date: | 08 17 1963 |
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Description: | Elevated view of Grand Champion soap box coaster crossing the finish line. |
Date: | 1954 |
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Description: | Mary Ellen McCabe, the Alice in Dairyland from Ladysmith, views a billboard announcing the stock car races scheduled for the Wisconsin State Fair during Au... |
Date: | 09 03 1953 |
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Description: | Mary Ellen Jenks, the 1953 Alice in Dairyland from Chippewa Falls, rides in the official convertible provided for Alice by Hult's in Madison. She is waving... |
Date: | 08 30 1954 |
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Description: | The pit crew signals their driver that his vehicle is exhibiting tire trouble and that he should come in for servicing. |
Date: | 07 24 1955 |
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Description: | The Soap Box Derby held on East Washington Avenue leading from the Wisconsin State Capitol. Shown are two boys in their racers on the starting ramp. Starte... |
Date: | 07 24 1955 |
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Description: | The Soap Box Derby held on East Washington Avenue leading from the Wisconsin State Capitol. Shown is racer Kenny Minett from Richland Center posing in his ... |
Date: | 07 24 1955 |
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Description: | A young man poses with his Soap Box Derby car indoors. The Derby was held on West Washington Avenue leading from the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
Date: | 07 24 1955 |
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Description: | A contestant in Madison's Soap Box Derby in his racer on the starting ramp with crowd in the background. The Derby was held on East Washington Avenue leadi... |
Date: | 07 24 1955 |
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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... |
Date: | 07 24 1955 |
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Description: | Madison Soap Box Derby champion, David Laverty of Mineral Point, posing with the plaque and his brother Larry who is a past champion. In the background is ... |
Date: | 10 02 1912 |
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Description: | African American heavyweight boxing champion, Jack Johnson, drove up to Milwaukee from his home in Chicago to watch the Vanderbilt Cup race on October 2, 1... |
Date: | 10 05 1912 |
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Description: | A wrecked automobile, which crashed during the 1912 Milwaukee Grand Prize Race (later called the American Grand Prix); possibly car #35, in which driver Ra... |
Date: | 05 28 1948 |
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Description: | Dane County traffic police with Jimmy Christensen pointing to his plans for a soap box racer. The traffic police are sponsoring Jimmy in the Soap Box Derby... |
Date: | 06 16 1948 |
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Description: | Several members of Local 311, Madison Firemen's union, are posed around Dick Lerwick, whom the union is sponsoring in the 1948 Soap Box Derby. Kneeling Ed... |
Date: | 07 10 1948 |
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Description: | Yardman Don Hoffman helps Bill Morton pick out plywood for his soap box racer at C.C. Colling Lumber Yard on University Avenue. |
Date: | 06 20 1948 |
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Description: | Richard Lerwick, 15, son of Mr. and Mrs. A.W. Lerwick, 1813 Helena Street, shown outdoors near a fence posing in his racing car. He is preparing for the So... |
Date: | 06 25 1948 |
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Description: | Soap Box Derby entrants just before the big race. Approximately forty-five young boys entered the competition, in which the winner will receive the city ch... |
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