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| Date: | 07 05 1933 |
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| Description: | Two workmen use a McCormick-Deering I-12 industrial tractor to a pull Boeing U.S. mail and express airplane from a Municipal Airport hangar during the Amer... |
| Date: | 05 05 1932 |
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| Description: | Two airplane pilots and a third man are standing in front of a Northwest Airways air mail plane at Madison's Royal Airport. There are automobiles parked ne... |
| Date: | 10 23 1930 |
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| Description: | Travelair plane returning to the Madison Airport from a Wisconsin v. Purdue football game. Here photographer Aldro Wasley is handing photographs of the gam... |
| Date: | 08 10 1929 |
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| Description: | Workers refueling an airplane from an International gas truck as a small crowd is looking on. The airplane was owned by Western Canada Airways. The truck w... |
| Date: | 11 22 1927 |
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| Description: | Souvenir envelope mailed by John A. Lester on the flight that inaugurated air mail service between Madison and Minneapolis in 1927. Madison's first incomin... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Refueling a Ford Tri-Motor airplane. Because gasoline truck hoses did not have pumps, airplanes were refueled by filling 5-gallon cans and then lifting the... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | A Standard plane on the golf course of the Waukesha Moor Baths Hotel surrounded by curious onlookers. This landing was representative of the problems encou... |
| Date: | 10 19 1911 |
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| Description: | Pilot Hugh Robinson and his Curtiss hydroplane at Prairie du Chien during a flight that was intended to be the first all the way down the Mississippi River... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | The completed Lawson L-4, the second and larger airplane designed and built by Alfred Lawson in Milwaukee in 1920. Not only was Lawson's airliner intended ... |
| Date: | 03 17 1931 |
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| Description: | A scene at Curtiss-Wright Field in Milwaukee. Pictured are Arthur D. Gaspar, a Waukesha funeral director, and Paul Trier, the pilot of the Curtiss Thrush. ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Commercial pilot Dave Behnke, who later headed Airline Pilots Association, signing for a load of airmail. After service as a pilot during World War I, Behn... |
| Date: | 04 22 1934 |
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| Description: | Howard Morey delivering the film "Hell's Holiday" to R.E. Mutchler of American Legion Post No. 57 for Parkway Theatre. (The man in the top coat is unidenti... |
| Date: | 07 01 1933 |
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| Description: | A Northwest Airways crew delivers a bag of airmail to Madison postmaster W.A. Devine. With him, posed in front of the Ford TriMotor, are pilots Elmer Wahl ... |
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| Description: | A steward serves four passengers in the bar and lounge of a TWA all-sleeper, trans-Atlantic Ambassador flight. The photograph is from the collection of com... |
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| Description: | Myrland's Sky Lodge, a vacation resort near Montello that boasted a private landing strip for pilots with small planes. The Piper Vagabond in the foregroun... |
| 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: | 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... |
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| Description: | An airplane at the thematically-based Don Q Inn. |
| Date: | 04 07 1933 |
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| Description: | Ira Chambers of the Atlas Distributing Co. is shown receiving the first case of Atlas Beer, of Chicago, Illinois, from the pilot of a Northwest Airlines pl... |
| Date: | 12 27 1929 |
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| Description: | Four men are standing beside a Curtiss airplane to receive a parcel flown in from the National Theatre Supply Company for the Eastwood Theatre. |
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