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| Date: | 06 1963 |
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| Description: | Children, adults, and a Northwest Airlines Boeing 707 jetliner on the tarmac at General Mitchell International Airport. The children, all first graders fro... |
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| Description: | Lincoln Beachey is considered by many to be the greatest aviator of his era. He is pictured here about to take off in his Curtiss pusher, wearing his signa... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Dr. A. Rudolph Silverston's vacu-aerial flying machine, as seen from the rear. Handwritten at top: "Rear View." Caption at bottom reads: "Silverston's Milw... |
| Date: | 03 17 1931 |
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| Description: | A scene at Curtiss-Wright Field in Milwaukee. Pictured are Arthur D. Gaspar, a Waukesha funeral director, and Paul Trier, the pilot of the Curtiss Thrush. ... |
| Date: | 12 29 1987 |
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| Description: | Bored travelers at General Mitchell International Airport, apparently taking their cue from a droopy travel poster advertising vacations in the sunny Carib... |
| Date: | 10 08 1960 |
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| Description: | The speakers platform during a Presidential campaign rally for Richard M. Nixon at Billy Mitchell Airport in Milwaukee. With Nixon on the platform are Kirb... |
| Date: | 09 20 1923 |
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| Description: | Two men ready a cream separator from Milwaukee Works to be transported to Hinsdale by airplane. One man is standing in the bed of a truck. |
| Date: | 08 31 1957 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee police Sergeant Edward Daily explains to Leland Bryan that his Roadable Aircraft, a combination airplane and automobile, may not be driven on Mil... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard with a close-up shot of the tail skid Alfred Lawson designed for his Military Tractor 2 (MT2), one of his first airplane designs. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of men loading bags marked "U.S. Mail" from a truck into a Lawson Airliner No. 2. Alfred Lawson in his flight gear is standing on a ... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | The metal structure of a Lawson Air Liner fuselage on wooden supports inside a hangar. Probably the Milwaukee plant. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Exterior plates being attached to a Lawson Air Liner. Two men are crouching underneath the cockpit. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | A Lawson Air Liner under construction at the Milwaukee plant. The cockpit and cabin have been enclosed with exterior plates, and the tail structure is visi... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Two images: at the top is a Lawson Air Liner parked outdoors near a hangar; and at the bottom are passengers and crew members standing in front of the airp... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Close-up view of the structure of the Lawson Air Liner, possibly in the tail assembly. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Tail assembly (empennage) for the Lawson Air Liner, with tail fins attached. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Close-up view of the tail assembly (empennage) of a Lawson Air Liner, with the fins and tail skid attached. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | The plating for the tail assembly of a Lawson Air Liner has been attached. The cabin is completed, and the wing structure is partially assembled. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view of the front a Lawson Air Liner after plating and glass have been attached to the cabin and the tail. Part of the wing structure is atta... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Close-up of the interior structure of a Lawson Air Liner tail assembly. |
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