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| Description: | Actor Jack Carson and two boys competing in an ice cream eating contest at the State Fair. The boys are identified as John Schroeder of West Bend and Jacki... |
| Date: | 03 15 1945 |
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| Description: | West High School basketball coach Willis Jones talking to team player Ray Lenahan, 438 Virginia Terrace, at the state basketball tournament. |
| Date: | 05 27 1948 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 03 16 1951 |
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| Description: | Four Madison West players consult with their coach during a Friday evening game at the WIAA state high school basketball tournament. |
| Date: | 04 25 1952 |
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| Description: | Beth Knope, 13-year-old champion of the Wisconsin State Journal's 1952 Badger Spelling Bee, with Walter W. Engelke, the principal of Nakoma school, ... |
| Date: | 05 03 1952 |
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| Description: | Badger Spelling Champion Beth Knope with her family. Her parents Pearl S. and Sidney E. Knope, are shown seated on either side of Beth, while her 6-year-o... |
| Date: | 05 17 1952 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State Journal's 1952 spelling champion, Beth Knope, boards a train to attend the national finals. Saying goodbye are her parents Sidney an... |
| 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 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: | 06 15 1957 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of seven high school seniors who won $100 scholarships from Bethel Lutheran Church. Students are, left to right, front row: Nancy Frailing, ... |
| Date: | 05 03 1958 |
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| Description: | Carol Fellows, a 14-year-old girl from Genoa City, is shown at the moment she was declared Badger State Spelling Bee champion. She outspelled 62 other city... |
| Date: | 08 07 1958 |
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| Description: | Original caption states: "Everyone benefits. Jans Jackson, Spring Green, champion subscription salesman, of the Wisconsin State Journal's carrier bo... |
| Date: | 12 26 1958 |
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| Description: | William Scobie, age 16 of Brodhead, holds a flight bag while embarking an airplane. Scobie won a trip to Hawaii for selling the most subscriptions to the <... |
| Date: | 03 31 1959 |
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| Description: | Four Madison Newspapers, Inc., carrier salesmen (or newspaper home delivery boys) and district circulation manager, Clinton Vandall (right) are shown looki... |
| Date: | 05 21 1960 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin's 1960 spelling champion, Judy Ann Nichols, of rural Sharon, posing with her parents at the Badger Spelling Bee. Her parents, who will accompany ... |
| Date: | 05 1953 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the West High School golf team, winners of Madison's 1953 high school golf tournament. Left to right, Coach Clark Byam, Lowell Bakken, C... |
| Date: | 03 27 1964 |
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| Description: | Kirby Toberman, The Wisconsin State Journal's 1964 Young Columbus, is shown receiving a passport holder and gift pen and pencil set from State Journal Publ... |
| Date: | 05 10 1958 |
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| Description: | Group portrait showing two winners of the Madison Teen-age Safe Driving Road-E-O with three adults. Shown left to right, are: Jerry Padgham and Al Haas, co... |
| Date: | 05 10 1958 |
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| Description: | "Almost 4000 high school musicians came to Madison for the state solo - ensemble festival, and 20 of them went home with scholarships for the 1958 Summer M... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | A referee has his fist raised over his head indicating a foul while standing over a basketball player lying on the floor. They are at the State Boys High S... |
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