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Filter: Creator Name of Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972
| Date: | 10 20 1949 |
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| Description: | A group of sixth graders, from Lowell School, are shown with a Northwest Airlines plane at Madison's municipal airport as a part of their study of transpor... |
| Date: | 11 04 1949 |
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| Description: | Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru of India decending the stairs from an airplane at Truax Field. Nehru came to Madison to speak at the University of W... |
| Date: | 07 26 1950 |
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| Description: | Ricky Pollock of Arlington, Virginia, steps off the plane at the Madison airport for a visit with his grandparents, Charles and Anna Pollock. |
| Date: | 10 20 1950 |
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| Description: | The University of Wisconsin football team boards an airplane taking them to their game at Michigan, played the following day. |
| Date: | 10 21 1950 |
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| Description: | The Wisconsin Badgers football team gets a warm welcome from a crowd of fans at Truax Field upon their return to Madison despite their 26-12 loss to the Un... |
| Date: | 11 18 1950 |
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| Description: | Part of a crowd of 150 waiting at the fence at the Truax airport terminal as the Badger football team's chartered airplane returns at 8:20 PM after losing ... |
| Date: | 09 06 1953 |
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| Description: | Colonel Collins H. Ferris stands beside his wife as he is greeted at the Madison airport upon returning from Japan. He was the commander at Truax Field fro... |
| Date: | 06 16 1954 |
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| Description: | Three Madison West High School students board a plane to spend the summer in Europe under the American Field Service International Scholarship Program. Lef... |
| Date: | 09 02 1954 |
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| Description: | Senator Karl Mundt, (S.D., Rep.) who is wearing a suit and hat, and putting a cigar up to his mouth. Mundt came to Madison to address a session of the Univ... |
| Date: | 07 1958 |
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| Description: | Western Union telegram from Congressman Donald Tewes to Madison's City council and Mayor Ivan Nestingen concerning Madison's petition for release from the ... |
| Date: | 07 09 1958 |
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| Description: | Four children stand on the observation deck watching planes at the Madison Municipal airport. The children include, from left to right: Carol, 3, Christine... |
| Date: | 03 01 1959 |
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| Description: | A group of men posing in front of an engine and under the fuselage of a DC-3 air liner. The original caption states: "Cutting the tape for the inaugural fl... |
| Date: | 03 26 1959 |
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| Description: | Newspaper carrier Donald Fay, 15, of Edgerton is the winner of the Young Columbus trip to Italy sponsored by the Wisconsin State Journal and its Sun... |
| Date: | 06 01 1959 |
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| Description: | Stanley Cobane, manager for Ozark Air Lines, stands at the service desk with his wife Joyce Cobane. Ozark Air Lines was the third airline to provide servic... |
| Date: | 12 15 1959 |
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| Description: | New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller is greeted by two former governors of Wisconsin at the Madison Municipal Airport. The potential presidential candidate... |
| Date: | 03 28 1960 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Mrs. Hubert Humphrey at the Madison airport with her son Hubert, Jr. (left), Sam Rizzo, Jr., son of the Humphrey campaign chairman in Wis... |
| Date: | 08 13 1960 |
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| Description: | Russian delegates to the seventh International Soil Science Congress are greeted at Truax Municipal Airport. Ann Borland (left), Miss Madison, greets Mrs. ... |
| Date: | 09 21 1960 |
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| Description: | Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. waves good-bye as he boards an airplane after a 90 minute campaign visit to Madison. |
| Date: | 09 21 1960 |
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| Description: | Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., ex-United Nations Envoy and Republican Vice-Presidential nominee, spoke to nearly 300 people at the Madison Municipal Airport. |
| Date: | 11 08 1960 |
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| Description: | Ed Diener, left, and Irwin Goodman, center, of the Madison Chamber of Commerce present the key to the city to Bob Waterfield, head coach of the Los Angeles... |
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