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| Date: | 07 17 1953 |
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| Description: | Four members of the Madison Parks Department building the ramp on Midvale Avenue for the upcoming Madison Soap Box derby. Left to right: Vie Cramer, Don Ke... |
| Date: | 07 1950 |
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| Description: | Roddy Botts with the tool set he won for best constructed car in the 1950 Madison, Wisconsin soap box derby. |
| Date: | 04 25 1951 |
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| Description: | Barbara and Howard Vindedahl tack upholstery onto their renovated chair in an upholstery class at Madison Vocational School. |
| Date: | 02 20 1951 |
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| Description: | Four men complete woodworking tasks at Neighborhood House, the oldest community center in Madison. It was established in 1916. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Barrel making tools and cattails, use for cauking barrels, at the Hess Cooperage. |
| Date: | 01 07 1957 |
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| Description: | Madison Art Guild members repair picture frames in Doris Brobst's recreation room at 211 Lathrop Street. Standing: Jean Johnson. Sitting on left: Ellsworth... |
| Date: | 06 03 1952 |
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| Description: | One of the prizes for the thirteenth annual Madison Soap Box Derby is a twenty-piece Stanley tool set awarded by the Shell Oil Company. Looking at the tool... |
| Date: | 08 31 1954 |
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| Description: | Bob Bell (left) uses a soldering iron in the electronics workshop at the Naval Reserve Training Center at 1046 East Washington Avenue in Madison. Looking o... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Arthur Virthaler, professor of art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in the studio with materials and tools for making jewelry. He was known for sim... |
| Date: | 03 13 1950 |
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| Description: | A familiar sight around Madison is workers framing in houses. Two workers are working on a roof and dormer. |
| Date: | 07 07 1950 |
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| Description: | Madison Soap Box Derby racer John Bock of 19 Paget Road, right, is shown prizes to be awarded to the top racers by Jean Behling, staff writer for the "Wisc... |
| Date: | 04 11 1951 |
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| Description: | Clarence Marty, a student in the television repair course offered at the Madison Vocational and Adult school, demonstrates how to measure the voltage in a ... |
| Date: | 04 11 1951 |
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| Description: | Jim Studee, left, and Gordon Jenkins, students in the television repair course offered at the Madison Vocational and Adult school, build a television set. ... |
| Date: | 05 14 1950 |
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| Description: | President Harry S. Truman visited Madison to be present at the laying of the cornerstone for the CUNA's Filene House, 1617 Sherman Avenue. He is pictured ... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Employees of Hess Cooperage quarter log sections for barrel-making. The man standing in the middle of the image is Joe Hess. |
| Date: | 05 08 1950 |
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| Description: | The cornerstone for the million-dollar four-story addition to the Madison Vocational School was laid at the corner of North Carroll and West Dayton Streets... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Joe Dottl standing in the Ideal Body Company on Park Street. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Ten men are standing near a pit, which is in the foreground. All but one of the men are wearing suits, and several are holding shovels or pickaxes. Two men... |
| Date: | 12 02 1958 |
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| Description: | Florence Tomlinson with a display of her homemade Christmas cards. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Two students welding at the University of Wisconsin Agricultural Short Course. |
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