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Rebuilt Canuck

Date: 08 31 1928
Description: Horace Hill, Pete Brandenberg, and unidentified children at the Beloit Airport with a Canuck airplane rebuilt by Allen Loveland. Surplus Canucks, as the Cu...
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Civil Air Patrol Volunteer

Date: 1943
Description: Jesse C. Brabazon, a pioneer aviator from Delavan, Wisconsin, in his uniform as a member of the Milwaukee Wing of the Civil Air Patrol during World War II.
Photograph

Model Builders

Date: 1934
Description: 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 b...
Photograph

Model Builders' Reunion

Date: 1984
Description: A reunion of former members of Hangar 13, an organization of Beloit boys that built and raced model airplanes during the 1930s.
Map or Atlas

Perspective Map of Beloit

Date: 1890
Description: Bird's-eye map of Beloit with insets of Williams Engine Works, Eclipse Wind Engine Co., and John Foster & Co. Turtle Creek is in the lower section, and the...
Postcard

First Wisconsin Aviator-A.P. Warner

Date: 11 04 1909
Description: Color postcard depicting Arthur Pratt Warner of Beloit flying his Curtiss Pusher for the first time, November 4, 1909. Warner was the first person in Wisco...
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Warner and his Factory

Date: 1910
Description: Arthur Pratt Warner, Wisconsin's first aviator, in front of the office of the Warner Instrument Company in Beloit. Warner, who held the patent for an autom...
Photograph

Vin Fiz Evidence

Date: 1953
Description: Jesse Brabazon, pioneer aviator from Delavan, displaying fabric from the Vin Fiz, the airplane in which Calbraith P. Rodgers made the first transcon...
Map or Atlas

Beloit : Rock County, Wisconsin

Date: 1874
Description: Bird's-eye view of Beloit, with insets of Beloit College, Beloit High School, and Memorial Hall.
Postcard

Beloit Railway Depot

Date: 1910
Description: Colorized view of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Depot at Beloit. Caption reads: "C. & N. W. Depot, Beloit, Wis."
Postcard

Fairbanks-Morse & Company in Beloit

Date: 1910
Description: Colorized image of the Fairbanks-Morse & Company buildings.
Photograph

East Grand Avenue

Date: 1910
Description: View down East Grand Avenue of the business district with a shoe business at the end of the street and the Hilton Hotel to the left.
Photograph

Students by Brick High School

Date: 1875
Description: View across wooden platform of a brick high school on a hill surrounded by a fence. The school has a mansard roof and what appears to be a bell tower above...
Photograph

Mineral Spring Pavilion with Visitors

Date: 1875
Description: "Mineral spring pavilion with visitors taking the waters." Seven adults, including a man in a top hat, five children and a woman are posing in a gazebo bui...
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People in Mineral Springs Pavilion

Date: 1875
Description: "Mineral spring pavilion with visitors taking the waters." Well-dressed men, women and children are posed in a gazebo built over the Iodo-Magnesian Springs...
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Railroad Wreck

Date: 1877
Description: Railroad wreck on the W.U. Road, Beloit, Wisconsin.
Photograph

Andrews House

Date: 1954
Description: View of the Andrews house, the birthplace and home of Roy Chapman Andrews.
Photograph

Bartlett Memorial Historical Museum

Date: 1962
Description: View of a car in the open doorway of a barn at the Bartlett Memorial Historical Museum.
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Bartlett Memorial Historical Museum Sign

Date: 1962
Description: Entrance marker to the museum.
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Bartlett Memorial Historical Museum

Date: 1962
Description: Exterior of the museum, with a pine tree to the left, partially obstructing the building, and a path to the right.

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