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| Date: | 08 22 1927 |
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| Description: | Crowd greeting the "Spirit of St. Louis" when Charles Lindbergh flew to Madison on August 22, 1927. The crowd at Pennco Field (Royal Airport)was so large ... |
| Date: | 05 21 1927 |
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| Description: | Charles Lindbergh in Paris, posed by the "Spirit of St. Louis," Ryan monoplane in which he flew solo across the Atlantic. Clearly visible is the plane's Cu... |
| Date: | 05 26 1927 |
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| Description: | Charles Lindbergh in Paris, being embraced by Louis Bleriot. |
| Date: | 05 20 1927 |
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| Description: | Charles Lindbergh receiving encouragement from an unidentified spectator as the "Spirit of St. Louis" is prepared for take off. Described by some as a fly... |
| Date: | 07 14 1938 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Motion picture and television "cowboy" stars Roy Rogers and Dale Evans arrive in Milwaukee for their appearance at the Wisconsin State Fair. Although unda... |
| 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: | 01 22 1964 |
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| Description: | Visible in a the back seat of a car are, left to right, Mrs. James Cain of Rochester, Minnesota, Jack J. Olson, and Lucy Baines Johnson, daughter of Presid... |
| Date: | 08 15 1935 |
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| Description: | Caption with negative reads: "Rogers talking with Mrs. I.M. Sandvik, colonist from Moose Lake, Minn. In back of Rogers is Stewart Campbell, property custod... |
| Date: | 08 15 1935 |
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| Description: | Caption with negative reads: "Rogers in the front seat of the plane, waiting for the take-off. He left the valley with a wisecrack on his lips." |
| Date: | 08 15 1935 |
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| Description: | Will Rogers in foreground, with two men standing behind him on the right, and the airplane in the background. Caption with negative: "Rogers alighting from... |
| Date: | 08 15 1935 |
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| Description: | Caption with negative: "Rogers joshes with transients, asking, 'Any of you boys from Claremore?'" The airplane is in the background. |
| Date: | 08 15 1935 |
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| Description: | Caption with negative: "Immediately after Post and Rogers landed with Pilot Chet McLean of Anchorage, with Post in the front seat with the pilot. Chief Pil... |
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