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| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of airplane races at the Janesville airport, including airplanes on the landing field, airport structures, cars parked around the airport, and ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Pennco Field (Royal Airport), and Lake Monona near the city limits. A crowd is gathered at the airport to watch an air show. |
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| Description: | Aerial view of a crowd at the Pennco Field (Royal Airport), gathered for an aerial show. Biplanes possibly used for the show are on the airstrip. Automob... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Pennco Field (Royal Airport) hanger surrounded by spectators gathered for an air show. Biplanes are parked on the grounds of the airpor... |
| Date: | 01 02 1953 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 05 17 1945 |
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| Description: | Mrs. F.V. Burcalow is shown with her two children, Vicki and Larry, with an airplane. Mrs. Burcalow is learning how to fly while her husband, an assistant ... |
| Date: | 05 17 1945 |
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| Description: | Martha Akin from Phoenix, Arizona, Audrey Waldschmidt, Bismarck, North Dakota, and Helen Harger, Pontiac, Michigan, are shown plotting a course for a fligh... |
| Date: | 05 17 1945 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 10 22 1946 |
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| Description: | Bert F. Crary, an employee at Truax Municipal Airport, holding three seagulls killed by an airplane as it landed at the airport. |
| Date: | 01 23 1947 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 02 21 1947 |
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| Description: | After hooking a wing into a huge tree, an airplane piloted by Carl Anderson crashed onto a town road in Fitchburg near the Sam McGaw farm. The impact tore ... |
| Date: | 02 21 1947 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 01 23 1952 |
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| Description: | Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, a Republican Presidential candidate, prepares to board a Wisconsin Central airplane in Madison after meeting with supporter... |
| Date: | 07 18 1944 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 12 18 1947 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 12 17 1947 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 02 29 1948 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 02 29 1948 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 05 02 1948 |
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| Description: | A group of men gathered in front of an airplane at the inauguration of Wisconsin Central Airline service to the Baraboo-Portage area. The men are local off... |
| Date: | 05 29 1948 |
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| Description: | A group of B-25s fly over the Wisconsin State Capitol dome during the Wisconsin Centennial Parade. |
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