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: | 1912 |
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Description: | An unidentified student among a group of men getting a lesson in a Curtiss plane at Rudolph Silverston's Milwaukee School and College of Aviation. Caption ... |
Date: | 1912 |
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Description: | John Kaminski (who can barely be seen here in his Lincoln Beachey checkered cap), his mechanic, and onlookers attempting to ready his Curtiss pusher for fl... |
Date: | 06 1914 |
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Description: | The Aerodome, invented by Samuel Langley, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, as reconstructed by Glenn Curtiss at Hammondsport. |
Date: | 1912 |
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Description: | Calbraith Perry Rodgers, with a cigar characteristically clenched in his jaw, was the first man to fly across the United States. He undertook this flight i... |
Date: | 1915 |
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Description: | Former President Theodore Roosevelt with pilot Art Smith and his Curtiss Pusher at the Panama Pacific International Exposition. |
Date: | 09 14 1911 |
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Description: | Calbraith Perry Rodgers in a Wright Model B at Appleton Baseball Park. Cal Rodgers, a member of the famous Perry family, learned to fly at the Wright Flyin... |
Date: | 09 05 1913 |
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Description: | Wisconsin's first air fatality was P.C. Davis, an exhibition pilot from Chicago, who died as a result of injuries sustained during an aerial performance in... |
Date: | 09 25 1912 |
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Description: | Lincoln Beachey, the best known aviator of the exhibition era, performed in Wisconsin with his Curtiss Pusher airplane on numerous occasions. This postcar... |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | The Curtiss Pusher owned by Arthur Pratt Warner of Beloit, the first man to fly in Wisconsin and the first person to purchase an airplane. Slightly below ... |
Date: | 1964 |
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Description: | Photographic holiday greeting card of three children, one boy and two girls, dressed in winter clothes, holding up an enlarged postcard. On the postcard is... |
Date: | 1911 |
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Description: | Photographic postcard view of the Kissel Motor Car Company. The elevated view shows the factory buildings, water towers, railroad cars and track. A dirigib... |
Date: | |
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Description: | Photographic postcard view of a street in a rural community's central business district. A biplane, printed into the background, is flying low overhead. A ... |
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: | 1917 |
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Description: | Photographic postcard of the Lawson Military Tractor 2 (MT2) fuselage in profile. The fuselage is carried by a truck, with a man sitting in the driver's se... |
Date: | 1917 |
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Description: | Four views of the Lawson Military Tractor 2 (MT2). Two views are of the Lawson parked on the ground and two views show the Lawson flying in the air. In the... |
Date: | 1917 |
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Description: | Three-quarter view from front right of a Lawson Military Tractor 2 (MT2) in a field. In the background an automobile is parked near a building. |
Date: | 1918 |
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Description: | Rear view of a Lawson Military Tractor 2 (MT2) in a field. Houses are in the far distance. |
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: | Lawson Military Tractor 2 (MT2) in a field. Left side profile view. Location is unknown but is probably Lawson Aviation Field in Green Bay. |
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