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Scene Still from A Girl of Yesterday

Date: 1915
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 ...
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Hughes' Air Victory

Date: 07 14 1938
Description: Minutes after finishing their record-breaking flight around the world (in 7 hours and 28 minutes), Howard Hughes and the four aviators who flew with him we...
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Howard Hughes, Millionaire Fly Boy

Date: 1934
Description: Howard Hughes, looking every inch the millionaire playboy, with his U.S. Army Boeing pursuit plane. Hughes had rebuilt the plane in order to increase its s...
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"Test Pilot"

Date: 1938
Description: A publicity still featuring the lead actors in "Test Pilot," an MGM 1938 motion picture release. "Test Pilot" was the story of a reckless commercial test p...
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"Air Circus" Product Placement

Date: 1928
Description: "Air Circus" (Fox 1928) is the story of two flight school cadets (only David Rollins is pictured) and an accomplished aviatrix, Sue Carol, who can fly ring...
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Mitchell Weather Watching

Date: 12 29 1987
Description: Bored travelers at General Mitchell International Airport, apparently taking their cue from a droopy travel poster advertising vacations in the sunny Carib...
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"Men with Wings"

Date: 1938
Description: Beaver Dam's favorite son Fred MacMurray (right) co-starred with Ray Milland and Louise Campbell in "Men with Wings," a 1938 Paramount release that traced ...
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Smokey Bear and Homer C. Pickens with Airplane

Date: 1950
Description: Smokey Bear cub and his handler, Homer C. Pickens, pose by a Piper Aircraft Corporation airplane named in Smokey's honor prior to flying to Washington, D.C...
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Dickey Chapelle with a Pilot

Date: 1939
Description: Dickey Chapelle, in a helmet and goggles, poses next to another pilot in front of an airplane.
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Dickey Chapelle with an Airplane

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Description: Dickey Chapelle getting into a small airplane. She is wearing a pilot's helmet, goggles and a scarf, and is carrying a parachute.
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"The Kiss" Scene Still

Date: 1916
Description: Luise D'Auvergne (Marguerite Courtot) and Jean-Marie (Owen Moore) board a seaplane in a production still from the Famous Players film "The Kiss."
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Plane Crash Scene Still for "Foreign Correspondent"

Date: 1940
Description: Six people crawl out of an airplane that is in the water. The scene is part of the film "Foreign Correspondent."
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Plane Crash Scene Still for "Foreign Correspondent"

Date: 1940
Description: Scene still of a crashed airplane in the water from the film "Foreign Correspondent." Water is bursting through the screen.
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Plane Crash Scene Still from "Foreign Correspondent"

Date: 1940
Description: Scene still of people crawling out of and on an airplane in the water from the film "Foreign Correspondent." In the background is a rear projection screen ...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson Sworn In as President

Date: 11 22 1963
Description: Original UPI Wirephoto transmission. Caption reads: "Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson flanked by his wife Ladybird (L) and the widow of assassinated Presid...
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Civil Air Patrol Party

Date: 08 04 1965
Description: Elevated view of four couples dancing near airplanes, while several other people look on. One person is playing the accordion. Caption reads: "They moved t...
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Faye Emerson and Scoop Crawford

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Description: Faye Emerson and her son William "Scoop" Crawford standing on a set of stairs leading up to a TWA airplane. Faye is holding several magazines and a purse. ...
Poster

North by Northwest lobby card

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Description: Lobby card for the 1959 film "North by Northwest" starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint. The card shows Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) being chased by a c...
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1,000,000th Passenger

Date: 12 16 1966
Description: A man in a coat and hat is walking down the airstairs of a plane. Caption reads: "Andrew Depta, of Cable (Bayfield county), set a Gen. Mitchell field recor...
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Warner Baxter and Billie Dove in The Air Mail

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Description: Warner Baxter and Billie Dove stand in front of an airplane in a scene from the 1925 film The Air Mail. They are in a half-embrace and both have an arm up...

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