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| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Portrait of a young woman, the prize winner of the Cook County school-home project in music, sitting at a piano. |
| Date: | 05 19 1952 |
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| Description: | The winner and two runners-up in the Madison Optimist Club's oratorical contest. In the center is the winner, fifteen-year-old Richard Harris. The runners-... |
| Date: | 06 12 1952 |
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| Description: | Robert J. Widmer accepts the keys for a new Nash Rambler that he won for his entry in the window display contest for Lee hats. His display was named the be... |
| Date: | 06 12 1952 |
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| Description: | William J. Kimball, Dane County 4-H Club agent, works with the top winners of the junior and senior speaking contests to prepare for a radio presentation t... |
| Date: | 06 17 1952 |
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| Description: | Forbes-Meagher Music Co., 27 W. Main Street, won a trophy in a nation-wide window display contest. A.C. Cory (right) presenting the trophy to Harold Frye (... |
| Date: | 07 22 1952 |
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| Description: | Fourteen-year old Darlene Kripps, center, is the winner of the award for best costume and decorated bike in the Bicycle Safety Week parade. Standing at her... |
| Date: | 07 22 1952 |
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| Description: | Ten-year-old David Paepke, Sauk City, is pictured with the new Sears Roebuck and Company bicycle he won in the Madison Bicycle Safety Week slogan competiti... |
| Date: | 04 25 1953 |
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| Description: | An adult stands beside a Badger Spelling Bee contestant at a podium behind a WIBA microphone. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | High school student Harold Enge poses with his blue ribbon winning angel food cake during an International Harvester Company Short Course. Additional cakes... |
| Date: | 11 05 1953 |
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| Description: | Helen and Cleo Capps won a 17-inch television set for their ideas about why it is pleasant to shop at National Food Stores. The photograph was taken as an ... |
| Date: | 01 14 1954 |
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| Description: | Nancy Staudenraus, State Journal librarian and assistant Spelling Bee director, looks over 1954 Spelling Bee pamphlets as they come off the press. Ernest P... |
| Date: | 03 30 1954 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Susan Hamre, Lowell School, one of nine individual Madison school spelling bee champions. The other students included Joyce Hoffman, St. Bernar... |
| Date: | 03 24 1954 |
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| Description: | The four finalists, one of whom will represent Madison in the district division of the Helen Farnsworth Mears Art Contest sponsored by the Wisconsin Federa... |
| Date: | 03 25 1954 |
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| Description: | Madison Spelling Bee Officials prepare for the up-coming spelling bee. They are, from left to right, Francis Clawson, Rev. Sig G. Sandrock, Nancy Stoufenra... |
| Date: | 05 11 1954 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Jeffrey Hansen (left), Harold Joyce, and winner James R. Green, finalists in the oratorical contest sponsored by the West Side Optimist C... |
| Date: | 06 29 1954 |
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| Description: | Portrait of the eleven Wisconsin State Journal newspaper carriers who won three-day trips to Chicago and Milwaukee in a subscription contest sponsor... |
| Date: | 07 15 1954 |
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| Description: | Larry Jacobson, the 1953 Madison Soap Box Derby champion, sitting in the Chevrolet Corvette which will carry him at the head of the 1954 parade. He is wear... |
| Date: | 07 20 1954 |
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| Description: | Miss Joyce Ziske of Waterford Rivermoor won the 42nd Wisconsin Women's Golf Association Tournament held at Blackhawk Country Club. |
| Date: | 07 20 1954 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Barbara Little, Blue Mound of Milwaukee, third place winner of the 42nd Women's Golf Association tournament held at Blackhawk Country Club in M... |
| Date: | 07 20 1954 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Merle Nickles Pierson of Beloit represents Nakoma Golf Course in the 42nd Women's Golf Association Tournament held at Blackhawk Golf Course in Madison... |
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