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| Date: | 02 01 1948 |
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| Description: | First-flight souvenir schedule of Wisconsin Central Airlines, signed by Company President Francis Huggins when the company headquarters moved to Madison in... |
| Date: | 09 01 1935 |
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| Description: | A schedule for the Milwaukee-Detroit route of Pennsylvania Airlines. Pennsylvania Airlines, founded in 1931, became the successor to the "bridge across La... |
| Date: | 04 01 1932 |
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| Description: | A schedule of Transamerican Airlines covering its service to Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, and other Great Lakes cities. The unfolded schedule depicts two p... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Loading an airplane with calcium arsenate in order to spray for the hemlock looper pest in Peninsula State Park. This is believed to be the first such use ... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Roy Larson of Larsen, Wisconsin in his first plane, a Canadian-built Curtiss (Canuck) purchased in 1922. Shortly after making this purchase, Roy and his br... |
| Date: | 06 1927 |
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| Description: | The Fokker airplane in which Lt. Lester Maitland of Milwaukee and Lt. Albert Hegenberger made the first California to Hawaii trans-Pacific crossing. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Advertising brochure for Timmerman Field, the successor to Curtiss-Wright Airport. Curtiss-Wright Airport, which had been established in 1929, was purchas... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for Lucky Strike cigarettes that shows the product name being written as a smoke trail above New York City. The campaign was devised for the... |
| Date: | 04 28 1928 |
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| Description: | Graphic design from a souvenir publication that welcomed the three heroic pilots who crossed the Atlantic from east to west in the Bremen, a Junkers W33 ai... |
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| Description: | The real flying nun, Sister Mary Aquinas Kinskey, arriving at Sheboygan County Airport with two Franciscan sisters in a Cherokee C airplane. Sister Mary Aq... |
| Date: | 1988 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the 1988 EAA (Experimental Aviation Association) Convention and Fly-in at Wittman Field. On the ground is the Concorde and a B-1 Bomber. |
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| Description: | Paul H. Poberezny, founder and former president of the Experimental Aviation Association and the winner of numerous aviation awards and titles. Poberezny a... |
| Date: | 1986 |
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| Description: | Aerial acrobatics at the Experimental Aviation Association (EAA) convention and fly-in at Oshkosh. The EAA encompasses all aspects of sport aviation includ... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | An advertising brochure for the Invincible Cabin Monoplane, an airplane briefly manufactured by the Invincible Metal Furniture Company of Manitowoc. Text o... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A souvenir postcard from the 1935 National Model Airplane Championship that featured illustrations of racing planes powered by Shell aviation gasoline such... |
| Date: | 1984 |
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| Description: | A reunion of former members of Hangar 13, an organization of Beloit boys that built and raced model airplanes during the 1930s. |
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| Description: | A souvenir from a national model airplane competition. A member of Hangar 13 of Beloit, Wisconsin was a contestant in this event and added this item to his... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Shawano Municipal Airport and airport managers Jack and Dorothy Wussow. In 1954 the Wussows gave up cold weather flying to become managers of an airport i... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Family portrait, probably taken at Alexander Field in Wausau. Included are an unidentified aviator, his wife, his baby, and a Waco 10 aircraft. Goggles, wh... |
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| Description: | Logo of the Hamilton Standard Propeller Company. Thomas Hamilton of Milwaukee began manufacturing propellers during the 1920s. In 1929 Boeing purchased Ham... |
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