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Madison Airport and Travel Air

Date: 10 23 1930
Description: Travelair plane returning to the Madison Airport from a Wisconsin v. Purdue football game. Here photographer Aldro Wasley is handing photographs of the gam...
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Midwest Air Transport Travelair Biplane

Date: 10 25 1930
Description: Pilot O.G. Corben preparing to take off with photographer Aldro Wasley and another passenger on their way to the Wisconsin-Purdue football game in Lafayett...
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Middleton Airport and Morey Airplane Co.

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Description: Howard Morey (left) was associated with most of the airports in Madison. Prior to World War II he managed Madison Municipal Airport and when the military t...
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Northwest Airways Air Mail Delivery

Date: 07 01 1933
Description: A Northwest Airways crew delivers a bag of airmail to Madison postmaster W.A. Devine. With him, posed in front of the Ford TriMotor, are pilots Elmer Wahl ...
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Truax Field Passenger Terminal

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Description: The new passenger terminal at Truax Field, also known as Madison Municipal Airport. At the back is an outdoor observation deck and a view of the original W...
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Group of Legionnaires

Date: 11 17 1937
Description: Outdoor group portrait of Legionnaires at the Royal Airport. Also shows two automobiles, an airplane and the Morey Airplane hanger.
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Model Airplane Builders Club

Date: 06 01 1934
Description: 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 c...
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Atlas Beer Delivery by Airplane

Date: 04 07 1933
Description: Ira Chambers of the Atlas Distributing Co. is shown receiving the first case of Atlas Beer, of Chicago, Illinois, from the pilot of a Northwest Airlines pl...
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Merle Buck Ready for Flight

Date: 10 01 1930
Description: Merle Buck and a dog in the cabin of "Miss Madison," a TravelAire airplane, at the Madison airport.
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Northwest & North Central Airplanes at Municipal Airport

Date: 10 08 1955
Description: Northwest and North Central airplanes, a DC3 and a Conair, in front of the terminal building of the Madison Municipal Airport.
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Animated Display Window

Date: 07 24 1947
Description: Animated display window at Master Furriers, 11 West Main Street, "Madison City of Prosperity," display of miniature storefronts with Madison merchants' sto...
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Aerial View of Wisconsin State Capitol

Date: 1954
Description: Aerial view of the Wisconsin State Capitol, including a bit of the airplane wing.
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Kennedy Campaigning in Wisconsin

Date: 10 23 1960
Description: Presidential candidate John F. Kennedy at the Madison airport with state Democratic leaders. To Kennedy's left are Governor Gaylord Nelson and state Democr...
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Lee B. Bailey

Date: 12 18 1947
Description: Lee B. Bailey, retired farmer, standing on steps near airplane, getting ready to take his first airplane ride a few days before his 75th birthday.
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Santa Parade

Date: 11 27 1948
Description: In front of Manchester's Department Store, Santa Claus waves to the children from his yellow Ercoupe airplane as he rides in a parade sponsored by the Madi...
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Navy Football Team Arriving at Truax Field

Date: 10 14 1949
Description: The Navy Midshipmen football team standing in front of and on the stairs to the airplane that brought them from Washington D. C. for the football game with...
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Mink "Blue Jeans"

Date: 11 01 1954
Description: A model, and a North Central Airlines stewardess posing at the top of loading stairs leading up to an airliner for Northwest Airlines. The model is posing ...
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Zor Shrine Tour of Hawaii

Date: 04 05 1958
Description: Rufus Wells, back, and Leo W. Roethe, right, standing beside the 350 pounds of cheese the Madison Zor Shrine group took with them on their tour of Hawaii. ...
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Pilot Holding Infant

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Description: Two men and a woman are in an airplane. One man is sitting and holding a baby. Caption reads: "Madison, Wis. Wisconsin Central Airlines. Pilot or other per...

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