Sky High - Image Gallery Essay
A Century of Aviation
First Wisconsin Aviator-A.P. Warner, 1909
Color postcard depicting Arthur Pratt Warner of Beloit flying his Curtiss Pusher for the first time, November 4, 1909. View the original source document: WHI 11576
This series of aviation galleries make up an online exhibit marking the centennial of aviation drawn from the picture collections of the Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theatre Research, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison libraries. The Sky High exhibit is divided into eight topical galleries of images from the Wisconsin Historical Images database. Click a gallery title to view the images.
View the Galleries
| Sport aviation and the people who love flying | Aerial Enthusiasm Gallery |
| Wisconsin airplane builders and airlines that served the Badger State | Airplanes and Airlines Gallery |
| A flying tour around Wisconsin | Airports Gallery |
| Small gallery of photographs of aviator John Kaminski, Wisconsin's first licensed pilot | Early Bird John Kaminski Gallery |
| How airpower changed the nature of war from Billy Mitchell to Vietnam | Military Aviation Gallery |
| Wisconsin Astronauts | Space Race Gallery |
| Aviators from Wisconsin and elsewhere who set records for racing or long distance flying: Navy NC-4 across the Atlantic | Speed and Distance Gallery |
| Pre-World War I images of the Wright Brothers, Wright Flyers in Wisconsin, and other early airplanes in Wisconsin | Wright Days Gallery |
Acknowledgements: This exhibit would not be possible without the exhaustive research of Michael J. Goc in Forward in Flight: The History of Aviation in Wisconsin, a Sesquicentennial publication of the Wisconsin Aviation Hall of Fame.