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Man Deplaning Airplane following Rose Bowl Trip

Date: 01 02 1953
Description: Football coach Ivy Williamson (?) is interviewed by a man with a radio transmitter on the steps of the airplane upon his return from the Rose Bowl game.
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Mr and Mrs. Evan Nicholas and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Nordby

Date: 05 17 1945
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Evan Nicholas of Middleton, and Mr. and Mrs. Robert (Lelia) Nordby, 701 Gilmore Street, posing with an airplane. They possess licenses to pilo...
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Dead Seagulls at Truax Field

Date: 10 22 1946
Description: Bert F. Crary, an employee at Truax Municipal Airport, holding three seagulls killed by an airplane as it landed at the airport.
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Teachers Boarding a Northwest Airlines DC-3 Airplane

Date: 01 23 1947
Description: Area teachers attending an aviation education program boarding a Northwest Airlines DC-3 plane at Truax Field along with some members of the flight crew.
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Airplane Wreck

Date: 02 21 1947
Description: Allen Kielhold (left) and Sam McGaw are shown standing beside the wreckage of the two-seater plane from which they pulled Carl Anderson after he crashed th...
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Senator Robert Taft Boarding Airplane

Date: 01 23 1952
Description: Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, a Republican Presidential candidate, prepares to board a Wisconsin Central airplane in Madison after meeting with supporter...
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Airplane Crash in Lake Mendota

Date: 07 18 1944
Description: Dozens of boys at Camp Wakanda on the north shore of Lake Mendota watch rescue work on an airplane which has crashed into the lake near shore. Tom Langloi...
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Lee B. Bailey

Date: 12 18 1947
Description: Lee B. Bailey, retired farmer, standing on steps near airplane, getting ready to take his first airplane ride a few days before his 75th birthday.
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University of Wisconsin Basketball Team at Airport

Date: 12 17 1947
Description: The University of Wisconsin basketball team in 'natty' attire posing in front of a Northwest Airlines plane. They are taking the plane to San Francisco on ...
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Private Airplane Crash

Date: 02 29 1948
Description: View of small private plane which crashed into a 30-foot open space, narrowly missing the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Vick at 102 Lansing Street and an adjac...
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Private Airplane Crash

Date: 02 29 1948
Description: View of small private plane which crashed into a 30-foot open space narrowly missing the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Vick at 102 Lansing Street and an adjace...
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Wisconsin Central Airliner

Date: 07 18 1948
Description: Two pilots with a guest posed in front of a Wisconsin Central airliner.
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Two Men near Airplane

Date: 08 03 1948
Description: Two men standing indoors next to a Wisconsin Central Airplane.
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Wisconsin Football Team Boarding Airplane

Date: 09 07 1948
Description: The University of Wisconsin football team shown boarding an airplane at Truax Field for a trip to Oakland, California, to play the University of California...
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American Legion Gathering at Airport

Date: 11 11 1948
Description: American Legion members in front of a plane at the Madison airport. Membership Chairman R.C. Golden is handing 1949 membership cards to the pilot Colonel L...
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University of Wisconsin President E.B. Fred and Michigan Governor G. Mennen Williams

Date: 03 24 1949
Description: UW President E.B. Fred (second from right), and Student Board president Tom Englehardt (at left) welcome Michigan Governor G. Mennen Williams (second from ...
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Navy Football Team Arriving at Truax Field

Date: 10 14 1949
Description: The Navy Midshipmen football team standing in front of and on the stairs to the airplane that brought them from Washington D. C. for the football game with...
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Grandson Arriving by Airplane to Visit Grandparents

Date: 07 26 1950
Description: Ricky Pollock of Arlington, Virginia, steps off the plane at the Madison airport for a visit with his grandparents, Charles and Anna Pollock.
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Wisconsin Football Team

Date: 10 20 1950
Description: The University of Wisconsin football team boards an airplane taking them to their game at Michigan, played the following day.
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Welcoming Committee for Rear Admiral Roy T. Cowdrey

Date: 05 18 1951
Description: Rear Admiral and Mrs. Roy T. Cowdrey are welcomed by city, state and military officials at the airport. From left: Col. Collins Ferris, commanding officer ...

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