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West High School Basketball Team

Date: 03 15 1945
Description: West High School basketball team reserve players sitting on the team bench during a game at the annual state basketball tournament. Left to right are: Har...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Sponsors

Date: 05 27 1948
Description: Freddy Fleury, 14, of 210 N. Paterson Street, talks over plans for his 1948 Soap Box Derby racer with Master Sgt. Wilfred W. Wall at the U.S. Army & Air Fo...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Sponsors

Date: 05 30 1950
Description: Left to right are: Don Spring, 13-year-old Soap Box Derby racer; his dad, Fireman A.E. Spring; and Lieut. Wilson H. Donkle, chairman of the fireman's Soap ...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Champion

Date: 07 1951
Description: City champion Roddy Botts posing in his winning soap box derby car, Aeolus, named for the Greek god of the winds.
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Madison Soap Box Derby Champion

Date: 07 1951
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.
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Madison Soap Box Derby Winner

Date: 07 1950
Description: Roddy Botts with the tool set he won for best constructed car in the 1950 Madison, Wisconsin soap box derby.
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Madison Advertising Club Essay Contest Winners

Date: 03 25 1954
Description: Group portrait of the Madison Advertising Club Essay Contest winners. Cynthia Curreri (first place) is standing and Gretchen Usher, Barbara Nemetz and Bonn...
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Helen Farnsworth Mears Art Contest

Date: 03 24 1954
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...
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Theresa Fire Queen Contestants

Date: 06 1986
Description: "Theresa Fire Queen contestants were, from left, Queen Brenda Bernhard, Diane Adelmeyer, Sandy Wendling, & Collette Kuehl."
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Neighborhood House Boys Camping Scrapbook: Archery Features

Date: 07 1942
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with images from an archery tournament at a summer camp for boys at Camp America Williams: a group of fin...
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Miss Popularity

Date: 1957
Description: Louise Carter of Milwaukee, 17-years-old, the winner of a popularity contest at a dance held by the Katty Club (Knowledge and Truth Through Youth) at the M...
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Optimist Oratorical Winners

Date: 04 26 1961
Description: Winners in Zones 4 and 5 in the Optimists Clubs' oratorical contest are selected at the Continental Restaurant. Zone 4 winners and contestants are Philip ...
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Optimist Oratorical Winners

Date: 04 26 1961
Description: Winners in Zones 4 and 5 in the Optimists Clubs' oratorical contest are selected at the Continental Restaurant. Zone 5 winners and contestants are Larry Mo...
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Scholarship Winners

Date: 02 18 1958
Description: Sitting are six young women who won scholarships presented by the Woman's Club of Madison. Left to right are: Sandra Jean Breitzke, Judith Davies, Lorraine...

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