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Boy Scout Sled Race

Date: 01 24 1953
Description: Boy scout sled team participating in the Klondike Derby sled race. The boys are pulling the sled on the Monona Golf Course, with Nichols School in the back...
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Bicycle Safety Week

Date: 04 29 1947
Description: Two men presenting a bicycle safety award to a young boy in front of a NBC WIBA radio microphone.
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Madison School Safety Patrol Captains

Date: 05 23 1950
Description: Madison school safety patrol captains honored at an appreciation show posing for a group portrait. In the front row are, left to right: Roger Schwarze, Jam...
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Montgomery Ward Bicycle Safety Parade Costume Winners

Date: 06 27 1950
Description: Girl costume winners in the Montgomery Ward Bicycle Safety Parade pose for a portrait with their bikes on a football field. Pictured left to right are: Mar...
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Montgomery Ward Bicycle Safety Parade Costume Winners

Date: 06 27 1950
Description: Boy costume winners in the Montgomery Ward Bicycle Safety Parade pose for a portrait with their bikes on a football field. Pictured left to right are: Jon...
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Edgewood Laboratory School Traffic Patrol Students

Date: 09 29 1950
Description: Bernard A. Precourt, supervisor of safety for the Wisconsin division of the American Automobile Association, presents equipment to seventeen students at Ed...
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Madison Bicycle Safety Week Parade

Date: 07 22 1952
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...
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Madison Public School Safety Program

Date: 09 05 1952
Description: Safety was the topic of discussion when Captain Walter Thompson, of the city police traffic bureau (seated at center) met with safety patrol members from f...
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Murals in Junior Red Cross Assembly Room

Date: 06 08 1953
Description: Water safety accident prevention and first aid are the themes of the mural being completed by East Junior High School pupils for the east wall of the Junio...
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Bike Safety King and Queen

Date: 06 20 1958
Description: The crowning of the Bike Safety King and Queen begins Bicycle Safety Week at a Coronation Banquet. The King and Queen are shown with their parents. Left to...
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Madison Explorer Scouts Do Well on Search Test

Date: 02 25 1961
Description: Four Explorer Scouts test a "walkie talkie" and sign in for "emergency duty" in a search test. Left to right: Larry Peterson, Sterling Miller, Dick Sulliva...
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Winners of Bike Safety Week Slogan Contest

Date: 06 18 1961
Description: The Bike Safety Week dinner held at the Cuba Club Supper Club honors the king and queen of Bike Safety Week. Bike slogan winners shown are John Troia, son ...
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Learning to Drive

Date: 07 01 1954
Description: Two young people are examining a wall chart depicting traffic lanes, cross walks, and intersections. There are movable adhesive rectangles representing car...
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Madison Safety Patrol Delegates Prepare to Leave for Washington, D.C.

Date: 05 06 1959
Description: Madison's 31 delegates, representing Madison public and parochial schools, prepare to travel to the Annual National School of Safety patrol assembly in Was...
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Dangers of Children on Railroad Tracks

Date: 05 19 1959
Description: Henry Cuccia, a ninth-grader at Cherokee Heights school, demonstrates "what not to do" on the Illinois Central railroad tracks near the school as he walks ...
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Dangers of Children on Railroad Tracks

Date: 05 19 1959
Description: Kathy Cramer, an eighth-grader at Cherkokee Heights school demonstrates "what not to do" on the Illinois Central railroad tracks near the school by crossin...

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