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Model Builders
1934
The members of Hangar 13, a group of Beloit youth organized to build and race model airplanes. Conrad Hansen, their organizer, is standing at left in the back row.
NAA Championship
circa 1930 -- 1939
A souvenir from a national model airplane competition. A member of Hangar 13 of Beloit, Wisconsin was a contestant in this event and added this item to his/her scrapbook.
Racing Souvenir
1935
A souvenir postcard from the 1935 National Model Airplane Championship that featured illustrations of racing planes powered by Shell aviation gasoline such as the Gee Bee Sportster and the Laird 40...
Washington School Hobby Show
May 27, 1949
Pat Rohr, 16 North Bassett Street, standing next to her salt and pepper shaker collection at the Washington School Hobby Show. Stan Fix, holding a model airplane, views her collection.
Model Airplane Builders Club
June 1, 1934
Group portrait of members of a vocational school model airplane builders club, each holding a model airplane with a diagram of a cambered aerofoil from a cross-section of a U.S. Army airplane rib.
