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| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Donald Crisp, aviator Glenn Martin, and Mary Pickford in the 1915 silent comedy A Girl of Yesterday (Famous Players-Lasky, 1915). Martin is wearing ... |
| 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: | Exterior view from field across pond towards Alfred Lawson's aircraft plant, with buildings and smokestacks. Men are working with a pile of lumber on the l... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of drafting tables for aircraft design, presumably inside the Lawson plant. There are several stools, desks and tables set up in the corner o... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Interior of the machine shop at the Lawson plant. There are drill presses and a belt-driven machinery system attached to the open rafters of the ceiling. S... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Lawson plant. At least 18 people are working in the large, open room. Belt-driven machinery is attached to the rafters of the open cei... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the interior of the Lawson plant, a large open room with exposed ceiling and windows lining both walls. Part of the fuselage for a Lawson ... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Lawson machine shop, with two Lawson engines, one housed in part of a fuselage, the other set on a wooden support. A long wooden frame is i... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Exterior view from field of a long brick Lawson plant building with a smokestack. Several automobiles are parked near the plant on the left, and on the rig... |
| 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: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait of Alfred Lawson standing in a field in leather flight gear. This is around the time the Lawson Aircraft Company built the Military Tr... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Several men are working on different parts of a Lawson Military Tractor 2 (MT2), including the interior structure of the plane, the engine, and the exterio... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Close-up view of the pilot's seat at the front of a Lawson Military Tractor 2 (MT2). The plane's structure is intact but exterior plates have not yet been ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Close-up of the empennage (tail assembly) of the Lawson Military Tractor 2 (MT2). Exterior plates have not yet been attached. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Alfred Lawson and two men pose with a Lawson Military Tractor 2 (MT2), which is parked outside a hangar. Lawson is wearing a leather flight suit and partia... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A Lawson Military Tractor 2 (MT2) is parked in a field. Several houses are visible in the background. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Alfred Lawson is seated in the rear compartment of a Lawson Tractor Biplane, which is parked in a field. A man in a suit is seated in the front compartment... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Close-up view of two sets of wheels for the Lawson Air Liner. They are arranged in front of a cloth. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | The structure of a Lawson Air Liner fuselage is inverted and set on wooden supports. The rear of the fuselage, with attached tail skid, is facing the camer... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Close-up of a tail skid attached to the rear of a Lawson Air Liner. The fuselage structure is inverted and set on wooden supports. A cloth is in the backgr... |
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