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| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | View of businesses on High Street, including the Rexall Drugstore on the left corner. One can also see a glimpse of the City Hall, directly across the stre... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | To the accompaniment of a cheering crowd, a pilot in a Curtiss pusher prepares to take off. |
| Date: | 07 04 1914 |
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| Description: | The wreck of John Kaminski's plane, where he had been scheduled to fly at the Fourth of July festivities. |
| 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: | 1911 |
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| Description: | John Schwister and his home-built airplane, "the Minnesota Badger," at the Langlade County Fairgrounds. |
| Date: | 08 1928 |
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| Description: | John P. Wood of Wausau, winner of the 1928 National Air Reliability Tour, with his "Waco from Wausau." Also in the photograph are Wood's prizes: the Edsel ... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Workmen overhauling the engine of a Wisconsin Central airplane in the airline hangar at Truax Field. Formerly known as Madison Municipal Airport, the field... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | An aerial view of the air show at Tri-County Airport to celebrate the re-opening of the field under local management. Because of its location at the inters... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Road workers grading a rural country road with an Avery tractor and wooden grading blocks. The image was cropped from a postcard collected by International... |
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| Description: | Colorized view of the Capitol Park and the replica of Centennial fountain installed in the park in 1878. The green paint is a change made in 1898. |
| Date: | 02 27 1904 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State Capitol fire, showing a crowd watching near the South Wing. Some of the contents of the building are already in wagons ready to be hauled a... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | The State Street approach to the Wisconsin State Capitol at the turn of the century. Electric poles and street railroad wires are in the foreground. In the... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Colonel and Mrs. Woods (right center) arriving on Madeline Island dock for summer visit. Thomas Stahl and his dog team (at left), loading luggage into dog ... |
| Date: | 03 03 1917 |
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| Description: | Winter scene of a snow-covered locomotive plowing its way through Barron, following a storm. |
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| Description: | Mule hitched to training cart, with driver, on a town street, possibly Alma. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View down road. There is a long fence and a sidewalk on the right side. Houses and trees are on both sides of the road. Caption reads: "Baileys Harbor Wis"... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of street corner, with two buildings that have been destroyed by a fire, a brick fence, and some trees. There is a wooden cart in th... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | The "Rock School" building, with children and teachers posed outside. |
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| Description: | Dam and bridge near Chippewa Falls, looking across the river towards a few buildings on the opposite bank. Caption at bottom reads: "View of the Dam at Chi... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | View from river of Dell Creek bridge with bluff and birch trees on the left. |
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