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| 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: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Alice in Dairyland standing with midget auto race winner Sam Hanks, a noted Indianapolis 500 driver, and Neal Carter, the fastest qualifier in the 100-mile... |
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| Description: | Men and women are lined up in their parked cars to watch the State Fair automobile race. |
| Date: | 07 08 1949 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Dana J. Dillon, advertising manager for Baron Brothers department store, 14-18 West Mifflin Street, holds a dress from the Baron's children's departme... |
| 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: | 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 28 1957 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A race car driver and passenger sit in their racer, No. 16, in front of a grandstand. Both wear goggles; the passenger wears a leather helmet. The spectato... |
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| Description: | All-American Soap Box Derby at Derby Downs. "Scene showing main entrance to Derby Downs." |
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| Description: | Drivers and passengers stand on the dirt track at Oriental Park Racetrack before an automobile race. On the left is a grandstand with spectator. Oriental P... |
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| Description: | Cars gather on a track near the judge's stand during an automobile race at Cornell University while spectators watch from the sidelines. Cornell University... |
| Date: | 2004 |
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| Description: | The Haddys are famous in local dirt track racing. Their son, Tim, kneels in front of a sprint car. |
| Date: | 07 1951 |
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| Description: | 1950 Madison, Wisconsin soap box derby champion Warren Slightam about to compete in an exhibition race at the 1951 Madison soap box derby on Gorham Street. |
| Date: | 07 24 1954 |
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| Description: | Lois Langeteig, assistant librarian at The Wisconsin State Journal, gives a tee shirt and helmet to David Laverty, 11, of Mineral Point, Wisconsin. Each bo... |
| Date: | 07 25 1954 |
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| Description: | Some of the crowd watching the 1954 Madison soap box derby, including the Wilbert Rung family of Madison. |
| Date: | 07 21 1956 |
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| Description: | Soap Box Derby contestants check through the inspection lane at Hult's Capital Garage. A Madison entry, Roger Boeker, gets his helmet and shirt. At right i... |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Danica Patrick, the most successful woman in American open-wheel racing. After 2010 she made the switch from IndyCar racing ... |
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