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Tomah High School Cheerleaders

Date: 03 15 1945
Description: Joyce Burroughs, standing, and Lucille Baker, kneeling, cheerleaders for the Tomah High School team competing in the annual state basketball tournament.
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Inland Lakes Regatta on Lake Mendota

Date: 07 05 1950
Description: Two Madison teenagers, Judith Rendall and Gina Johnson, standing on board Judy's Class C sailboat "Nite-Hawk."
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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 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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Esther A. Elmer

Date: 1935
Description: Esther Elmer, 20, poses with jars of fruits and vegetables which she has canned. A fancy carpet is hanging behind her as a backdrop. She wrote on the rever...
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Young Columbus Winner

Date: 03 26 1959
Description: Newspaper carrier Donald Fay, 15, of Edgerton is the winner of the Young Columbus trip to Italy sponsored by the Wisconsin State Journal and its Sun...
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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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Dick Berens Wins Three Events at City Track Meet

Date: 04 29 1960
Description: Dick Berens of Madison Central High School won three events at the Madison City Track Meet: the 100 yard dash in 10.5 seconds, the 220 yard dash in 23.4 se...
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Winners of State High School Golf Tournaments

Date: 05 28 1953
Description: Outdoor portrait of Doug Randall, a member of the Wisconsin High golf team and medalist at the state high school sectional meet. Wisconsin High won the fiv...
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Teen-age Baking Contest

Date: 11 18 1964
Description: Richard Krejcarek, age eighteen from Manitowoc and first-year student at the Madison Vocational, Technical, and Adult school, is the winner of the teen-age...
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Patrick Stoycheff

Date: 03 05 1958
Description: Portrait of Patrick Stoycheff, who won an all-expense paid 10-day trip to Portugal, Spain and New York City for selling 150 new subscriptions to the Wis...
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Wisconsin State Journal Cookbook Recipe Contest

Date: 08 14 1958
Description: Agnes Tomlinson, Middleton, cuts a strawberry pie. She plans to enter the cookbook recipe contest for the Wisconsin State Journal.

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