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| Date: | 08 11 1911 |
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| Description: | Souvenir postcard sent to Harriet O'Shea of Madison from an unidentified friend who attended the Chicago International Aviation Meet. The Chicago meet, whi... |
| Date: | 02 15 1932 |
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| Description: | A Milwaukee-Detroit schedule of the Kohler Aviation Corporation. This Kohler company was based in Grand Rapids, Michigan and was unrelated to the Wisconsi... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Art Deco-style place card with an aviation theme used for a women's luncheon at the Madison College Club. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Passenger ticket and baggage check for Northwest Orient Airlines, illustrating their newly initiated around-the-globe routes to the Far East. This ticket w... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A baggage sticker that advertises that airline as the "Lindbergh Line" and that is illustrated with a drawing of Lindbergh's plane, the "Spirit of St. Loui... |
| Date: | 07 01 1933 |
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| Description: | A Transcontinental & Western Airline schedule, effective July 1, 1933. Charles Lindbergh began his association with commercial aviation in 1928 when Trans... |
| Date: | 02 01 1948 |
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| Description: | First-flight souvenir schedule of Wisconsin Central Airlines, signed by Company President Francis Huggins when the company headquarters moved to Madison in... |
| Date: | 09 01 1935 |
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| Description: | A schedule for the Milwaukee-Detroit route of Pennsylvania Airlines. Pennsylvania Airlines, founded in 1931, became the successor to the "bridge across La... |
| Date: | 04 01 1932 |
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| Description: | A schedule of Transamerican Airlines covering its service to Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, and other Great Lakes cities. The unfolded schedule depicts two p... |
| Date: | 02 04 1864 |
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| Description: | Embossed invitation to the fourth masquerade ball of the Madison Fire Engine Company #2. The invitation depicts a fire fighter on a ladder carrying a woman... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Invitation to the annual ball at Turner Hall, sponsored by Madison's Andrew Proudfit Steam Fire Engine Company #2. The company, which was organized in 1870... |
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| Description: | Ticket envelope for the Santa Fe Railroad. The bold graphic design emphasizes the streamlined, futuristic design of the railroad's locomotives. |
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| Description: | "It's Always Springtime on the C&O," an advertising brochure issued by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad to publicize its status as the first railroad to air ... |
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| Description: | "The Wisconsin," a passenger car of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. This color illustration is from a dismantled scrapbook. |
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| Description: | A colored advertising card that was issued by the Land Department of the Wisconsin Central Railroad in order to promote the sale of railroad-owned land in ... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Color brochure advertising the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Minneapolis Railroad's Hiawatha, the first streamlined steam locomotive. Hiawatha trains boas... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Handbill advertising two lectures at the Monona Lake Assembly, near Madison in July 1903. First was a debate on "The Negro Problem" between Senator J.R. B... |
| Date: | 02 22 1860 |
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| Description: | Menu for the Newhall House hotel in Milwaukee, extensively illustrated with an engraving of the hotel and prices. The Newhall House, during its day one of ... |
| Date: | 05 02 1882 |
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| Description: | Illustrated invitation to a May Party at Liederkranz Hall given by the Makers and Sawyers of Milwaukee. The invitation is illustrated in color with a hors... |
| Date: | 01 01 1858 |
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| Description: | Printed invitation to a New Year's Ball given at Weeden's Hotel in Neenah with music provided by Shattuck's Cotillion Band. The invitation is printed on e... |
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