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| Date: | 03 1909 |
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| Description: | Carl S. Bates, a young inventor from Clear Lake, Iowa, about to race the Buick owned by Louis Strang on the beach at Daytona Beach. Bates originally chall... |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 08 18 1935 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising the air show held to mark the dedication of the airport in Waukesha, an event sponsored by the Waukesha Aviation Club. Present to dedica... |
| 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: | 07 1910 |
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| Description: | Walter Brookins, a boyhood friend of the Wright Brothers, flying a Wright airplane over the ocean at Atlantic City. Brookins set numerous records for altit... |
| Date: | 07 1912 |
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| Description: | Glenn Curtiss flying over the ocean. The pontoons under each wing illustrate the beginnings of his development of amphibious aircraft. The famous Steel Pie... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Advertising card from an exhibition of the Herring-Curtiss "Golden Flyer" in which Glenn Curtiss had won the first Gordon Bennett trophy at Rheims. The exh... |
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| Description: | View toward an air mail pilot climbing into his airplane to get ready to leave the field. Other men are walking away from the airplane. |
| Date: | 08 22 1927 |
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| Description: | Charles Lindbergh meeting local dignitaries, with the crowd of admirers behind him seated in the stadium. Partly obscured to his right is Governor Schmedem... |
| Date: | 08 22 1927 |
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| Description: | Charles Lindbergh speaking to a crowd at a stadium. |
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| Description: | Dickey Chapelle getting into a small airplane. She is wearing a pilot's helmet, goggles and a scarf, and is carrying a parachute. |
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| Description: | Image of Curtiss flying an airplane over a body of water. There is a hill along the shoreline in the background. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of Trout Lake of a group of six men posed with the pilot, possibly Jack Vilas, on an early seaplane or flying boat floating in the wate... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | REar view from left side of a Lawson Military Tractor 2 (MT2) in a field. Three men are standing near the airplane, with one of the men leaning against the... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View towards the cockpit of a Lawson Military Tractor 2 (MT2), apparently just after a successful flight. Five men are around the plane, and one man is sta... |
| 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 ... |
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| Description: | Side view of front of a Fokker Super Universal with pilot sitting inside. The improved cockpit enclosure allows for better visibility for the pilot. |
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