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Dedication of Wisconsin's First Expressway

Date: 09 04 1958
Description: Dedication of Wisconsin's first expressway, a seven-mile stretch of Interstate Highway I-94 in Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Presiding at the ribbon-cutting ...
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State Street View

Date: 1935
Description: View of the 200 and 300 blocks of State Street looking toward the Wisconsin State Capitol.
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CORE Picketers

Date: 01 14 1964
Description: Civil rights group CORE picketing the Board of Realtors at Coach House Motor Inn for fairness and equality in housing.
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Woodchopping Contest

Date: 1936
Description: A crowd surrounds a man as he stands atop a tree trunk swinging his axe in a woodchopping contest.
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EAA Acrobatics

Date: 1986
Description: Aerial acrobatics at the Experimental Aviation Association (EAA) convention and fly-in at Oshkosh. The EAA encompasses all aspects of sport aviation includ...
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EAA Acrobatics

Date: 08 1983
Description: A performance by the Earl Cherry acrobatic team at the EAA Convention and Fly-in.
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EAA Bombing Demonstration

Date: 08 1983
Description: The crowd at the Experimental Aviation Association Fly-in enjoyed a demonstration of World War II bombing. Here two planes fly through the swirling black s...
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Aircraft Carrier Landing

Date: 1950
Description: A crewman on a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier signals to the pilot of an incoming U.S. Marine Corps CH-34 Choctaw helicopter. The landing was photographed by M...
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M*A*S*H Helicopters

Date: 1960
Description: Bell Model 47 light observation helicopters during a training exercise at Fort Benning, Georgia. One of the most popular helicopters ever built, the Model ...
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Cicero Field Flight Instructors

Date: 1912
Description: Cicero Field flight instructors Edward Finan (left) and DeLloyd Thompson seated in a Wright Model B airplane at the Chicago International Air Show. The pla...
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Curtiss Airplane and Glenn Martin

Date: 1909
Description: Glenn Martin, who would become one of the great names in the airplane construction industry, in a Curtiss Pusher during the early days of his career in Cal...
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McCutcheon and Airplane

Date: 1911
Description: Chicago Tribune cartoonist John T. McCutcheon with his Wright Model B airplane, probably photographed at Cicero Field. McCutcheon is sometimes referred to ...
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Jesse Brabazon Over the Mississippi

Date: 11 1912
Description: Jesse Brabazon, pioneer aviator from Delavan, flying over the Mississippi River in a Wright Model B airplane. "It was quite a sight to fly over the Mississ...
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First to Fly — Wilbur Wright

Date: 1912
Description: Wilbur Wright, in profile, with a Wright Flyer. The original photographic postcard from which this image was copied was presented by Wright to pioneer avia...
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Execution by Firing Squad

Date: 1957
Description: Members of the Algerian National Liberation Front form a firing squad and execute a man who claimed to have killed innocent men, women, and children in Alg...
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Siblings at the Green County Fair

Date: 07 31 1959
Description: A brother and sister pose with their calves at the Green County Fair.
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Edna Kern Hauling Water

Date: 01 13 1956
Description: Edna Kern, wife of Ernest G. Kern, hauling water in buckets to the hen house.
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At the Mailbox

Date: 01 13 1956
Description: Edna Kern picking up the mail at the roadside mailbox.
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Washing Windows

Date: 01 13 1956
Description: Edna Kern washing the windows outside her house. A cat is lying on the lawn in the foreground.
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Front Door at Taliesin

Date: 08 1957
Description: Looking south at the open front door at Taliesin with birch trees on left and Buddha on right of center. Taliesin is located in the vicinity of Spring Gree...

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