Date: | 1928 |
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Description: | Charles "Speed" Holman and Ed Ballough, the Laird Team, after the New York to Los Angeles air race. Minnesotan Charles Holman earned his nickname by racing... |
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: | 06 1962 |
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Description: | Marines arriving at Soc Trang on a C-130 Hercules transport carrier. Soc Trang was an abandoned landing strip built by the Japanese during World War II. ... |
Date: | 1960 |
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Description: | President Dwight D. Eisenhower (Ike), as commander-in-chief, inspects a soldier at an exhibition at Fort Benning. |
Date: | 06 1962 |
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Description: | A photograph taken by Milwaukee photographer Dickey Chapelle on board a helicopter that was enroute to Vinh Quoi in the Delta Region of South Vietnam. The ... |
Date: | 1963 |
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Description: | A photograph by freelance photographer Dickey Chapelle of several Sikorsky CH-34A helicopters taken somewhere in South Vietnam. Because these heavy lifting... |
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Description: | An unidentified image from the collection of Dickey Chapelle, a freelance photographer, shows a U.S. Marine on duty in the watchtower of a South Vietnamese... |
Date: | 06 1962 |
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Description: | A U.S. Army Piasecki CH21-C helicopter operating at a newly cut drop zone strip near the Laotian border to resupply Vietnamese troops. Because of the two r... |
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Description: | Dropping supplies at a South Vietnamese army outpost. Photographer Dickey Chapelle of Milwaukee was on board the helicopter as the drop was taking place. |
Date: | 1918 |
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Description: | Two Sopwith Camels, somewhere in France. This image is from the photo collection of Alvin Reis of Madison. He made many wartime photos into lantern slides ... |
Date: | 1918 |
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Description: | A portrait of Alvin C. Reis of Madison during his service in World War I. During the war, Reis commanded several observation balloon squadrons. Later, he b... |
Date: | 10 1869 |
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Description: | The second Wisconsin State Capitol dome under construction, showing the workmen and the equipment they used to hoist construction materials into place. |
Date: | 1930 |
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Description: | A Native American woman is sitting on the ground preparing corn for drying. A man, with arms akimbo, is standing nearby, observing. Husked corn is piled on... |
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Description: | William Dunn, known as Pickerel Billy, standing behind a display of twelve pickerels. Pickerel Billy supplied pickerels from Lake Mendota to downtown hotel... |
Date: | 1934 |
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Description: | Hand-colored image of two men loading cranberries in crates into an open air drying shed shortly after harvest. |
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Description: | Hand-colored image of a Wisconsin cranberry bog and harvest. Men are harvesting in the flooded cranberry marshes. |
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Description: | Hand-colored image of field hands harvesting with cranberry rakes from a flooded cranberry marsh. |
Date: | 1911 |
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Description: | Skier heading down the jump at Stoughton with spectators in the foreground. |
Date: | 1911 |
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Description: | Ski jumper coming to a stop after a successful landing. |
Date: | 1915 |
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Description: | Ski jumper eases to a stop with his legs splayed wide apart, and bent over forwards with their hands touching the ground for balance. |
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