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| Date: | 07 23 1949 |
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| Description: | Luanne Unbehaun of Richland Center is crowned Madison Soap Box Derby Princess by beauty queen Jackie Stafford. Looking on at right is Lee Baron of Baron's ... |
| Date: | 07 24 1949 |
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| Description: | Madison Soap Box Derby view of the crowd watching the race in front of Water Works, corner of East Gorham and North Hancock Streets. Motorcycle Officer, C.... |
| Date: | 07 24 1949 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 07 24 1949 |
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| Description: | Seventy-six derby car drivers march behind leader Frankie Meyers on East Gorham Street during the Soap Box Derby Parade of Youth. |
| Date: | 07 24 1949 |
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| Description: | Madison Soap Box Derby Sportsmanship Award winners with County Traffic Officer, Charles O'Brien, presenting awards to Dickie Wold of LaFarge and Frank Bryl... |
| Date: | 07 23 1949 |
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| Description: | Ted Ryan being weighed with his racing car. Their combined weight was just under the 250-pound limit. Left to right are Weighmaster Frankie Meyers, 1948 Ma... |
| Date: | 07 24 1949 |
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| Description: | Madison Soap Box Derby Parade of Youth with the VFW Drum and Bugle Corps on East Washington Avenue. Club Royal and Blied Printing Company is visible in the... |
| Date: | 07 24 1949 |
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| Description: | Madison Soap Box Derby Parade with the VFW Color Guard. Kroger Super Market and Uptown Liquor Store, located on the 100 block of East Washington Avenue, ar... |
| Date: | 07 24 1949 |
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| Description: | Soap Box Derby Parade of Youth showing the Beaver Dam float and those from nearby communities. The Uptown Liquor Store and other businesses along the 100 b... |
| 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: | 07 28 1949 |
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| Description: | Phil Lenhart and Warren Slightam, Soap Box Derby winners, are awarded sports jackets (letterman jackets) by Johnny Casey, manager of the boys' department a... |
| Date: | 08 02 1949 |
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| Description: | Dr. Cary Middlecoff, one of the nation's top golfers, right, sits beside A.E. "Dolph" Friede, president of Nakoma Golf club. The men are paired to play in ... |
| Date: | 08 02 1949 |
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| Description: | Four principals in the "best ball" golf exhibition game at Nakoma Golf Club are, left to right: Dr. Cary Middlecoff, one of the nation's top golfers; Georg... |
| 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 07 1949 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of the 15 members of the Shorewood Beach swim team, winners of the team championship at the Madison City Swim held at B.B. Clark Bea... |
| Date: | 08 07 1949 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of the 41 boys and girls who were winners of the individual events in the annual Madison swim meet held at B. B. Clark Beach. |
| Date: | 08 07 1949 |
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| Description: | One of the features of the annual city swimming meet held at B.B. Clarke Beach was the water ballet put on by these girls: left to right, Sharon Thompson, ... |
| Date: | 08 07 1949 |
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| Description: | Helen Wear, representing Maple bluff, takes part in the diving competition at the annual Madison city swimming meet held at B.B. Clark beach. Helen was on... |
| Date: | 08 10 1949 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of six members of the Shorewood Hills swim team, winners of the annual Madison city swimming meet. The girls, sitting on the rock, from left... |
| Date: | 08 10 1949 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the Security State Bank softball team, favored to win the championship of the 23rd annual city municipal softball tournament, having alre... |
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