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| Date: | 07 19 1931 |
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| Description: | The crowd at a free air show sponsored by the recently organized Waukesha Aviation Club in order to dedicate their new airport. In actuality, the club's ai... |
| Date: | 08 1912 |
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| Description: | John Kaminski (the first licensed pilot in Wisconsin, third from the right in checkered cap) with his new Curtiss pusher, the "Sweetheart." |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Boys demonstrate acrobatic skills on the grounds of their summer camp. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | A Standard plane on the golf course of the Waukesha Moor Baths Hotel surrounded by curious onlookers. This landing was representative of the problems encou... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Walter Liskowitz of Waukesha in his two-place Standard. This photograph was taken shortly after he organized Walter's Airline to provide service to Chicago... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | A demonstration of parachute handling for members of a local YMCA by the Waukesha Aviation Club. The club considered such educational activities for young ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The business card of Waukesha photographer Warren O'Brien, a pioneer in aerial photography in Wisconsin. The illustration shows him sitting on the wing of ... |
| Date: | 05 25 1931 |
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| Description: | The Waukesha Flying Club and their jointly owned Waco 10. The members are (row 1, left to right) Charles Gittner, Joe Rombough, and Roy Winzenreid and (row... |
| Date: | 06 15 1934 |
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| Description: | A home built Pietenpol buit by members of the Waukesha Aviation Club after its initial flight. They are Chet Wolt, Jack Leeman, Dean Crites, and Bob Lathro... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Fritz Warden (at the propeller) and Lee Barney, two young members of the Waukesha Flying Club, together with Barney's Aeronica C2 airplane. The Aeronica w... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | General William Mitchell, with his personal airplane and Milwaukee airport manager Giles Meisenheimer at Butler Field, the first Milwaukee County airport. ... |
| Date: | 07 07 1984 |
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| Description: | Steam locomotive No. 1385 moves along the tracks as part of the Butler Railroad Days. |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | A veteran places a flower on the grave of an unknown soldier. |
| Date: | 07 08 1988 |
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| Description: | Two women lifeguards sun themselves at the edge of Horeb Park pool during a rotation break. |
| Date: | 09 10 1963 |
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| Description: | A boy repairing the fence at the Golden Guernsey Dairy cooperative McKerrow Farms. |
| Date: | 08 28 1967 |
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| Description: | Cloaked in a blanket, a girl eats ice cream at the Muskego Veterans of Foreign Wars County Fair day. |
| Date: | 12 12 1963 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with Swanson School youngsters playing in the first heavy snow of the season. |
| Date: | 10 09 1963 |
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| Description: | Couple arranging varieties of apples and jugs of cider at their roadside stand near Mukwonago. |
| Date: | 11 1941 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks of the Wisconsin Central Railroad depot at Sussex (formerly known as Templeton). Two cars are parked near the depot and a bagga... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Central Railway's locomotive # 96 at the Waukesha depot. |
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