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| Date: | 1912 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Mickey McGuire, a mechanic with the Max Lillie Exhibition Team that was based in Chicago. Pioneer aviator Jesse Brabazon, who knew McGuire from their days ... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Jesse Brabazon, pioneer aviator from Delavan, displaying fabric from the Vin Fiz, the airplane in which Calbraith P. Rodgers made the first transcon... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Charles Dickenson, a wealthy Chicago businessman and an early supporter of aviation. In addition to serving as president of the Chicago Aero Cl... |
| Date: | 10 14 1910 |
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| Description: | Claude Graham-White, winner of the Gordon Bennett Race and several other important races in 1910, flying a Farman plane over Washington, D.C. Graham-White ... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Chicago Tribune cartoonist John T. McCutcheon with his Wright Model B airplane, probably photographed at Cicero Field. McCutcheon is sometimes referred to ... |
| Date: | 11 1912 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Horace Kearney (left), a member of the Curtiss exhibition team, and Hillery Beachey, brother of the famous aviator, Lincoln Beachey. Kearney was familiar ... |
| Date: | 09 1912 |
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| Description: | The first airmail shipment from Cicero Field to Wheaton and Elmhurst, Illinois. Postmaster MacDonald of Cicero is swearing-in pilots Max Lillie, Paul Stude... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Lincoln Beachey, shortly before his fatal crash at Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915. During his brief career Beachey was the best known, ... |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Johnny Catlin at age 12 when he was a drummer boy for the 28th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. |
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| Description: | Field notes taken for T6N R17E between 6 and 7 on the original township survey of Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Microfilmed page from John Archiquette's diary partially written in the Oneida language. |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Page from an album kept by Neighborhood House, with T.T. Club members gathered around a piano while Mary Lee Griggs, director of the Play School, plays acc... |
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