Date: | 09 1910 |
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Description: | Crowd gathered under a tent to view the new line of Osborne wagons at International Harvester's Osborne Division exhibit at the New York State Fair, Septem... |
Date: | 06 14 1940 |
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Description: | Boy Scouts and others recite the Pledge of Allegiance during Madison's first public Flag Day ceremony held at the UW football stadium. |
Date: | 07 20 1944 |
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Description: | Young people dance in the street on Bowen Court as part of city Recreation Department summer activities. Girls are dancing with girls and boys are dancing ... |
Date: | 1957 |
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Description: | Spectators at a high school basketball game are urged to support the team by jumping cheerleaders. |
Date: | 1936 |
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Description: | A crowd surrounds a man as he stands atop a tree trunk swinging his axe in a woodchopping contest. |
Date: | 1912 |
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Description: | To the accompaniment of a cheering crowd, a pilot in a Curtiss pusher prepares to take off. |
Date: | 1912 |
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Description: | Pilot John Kaminski racing a motorcycle at the fairgrounds. |
Date: | 08 30 1913 |
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Description: | John Kaminski and mechanic Jack Knight making mechanical repairs to Kaminski's plane during an emergency landing at High Point. Such events were guaranteed... |
Date: | 08 30 1913 |
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Description: | Exhibition pilot John Kaminski preparing to take off at High Point. Here Kaminski is waiting for the engine to warm up; once it is ready he will signal to ... |
Date: | 1912 |
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Description: | A Wright Model B Flyer at the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds. Although unidentified, this is believed to be the aircraft that Farnum Fish flew at the fairgrou... |
Date: | 09 11 1955 |
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Description: | The crowd at "Air Progress Day," an air show sponsored by the Waukesha Aviation Club. |
Date: | 1924 |
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Description: | A barnstorming pilot and curious onlookers at a field on the outskirts of Waukesha that served as a primitive airport. Technically, the term barnstorming s... |
Date: | 07 19 1931 |
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Description: | The crowd at a free air show sponsored by the recently organized Waukesha Aviation Club in order to dedicate their new airport. In actuality, the club's ai... |
Date: | 02 23 1985 |
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Description: | Young Ben Schreiner of Slinger waiting near the Republic Airlines ticket counter at General Mitchell International Airport for a vacation flight to Florida... |
Date: | 1947 |
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Description: | Elevated view of Bascom Hall Terrace at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Lincoln Monument is near the front entrance. |
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: | 1908 |
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Description: | A balloon about to ascend in Minneapolis. John Schwister, who later built the Minnesota-Badger airplane, is in the front of the gondola, with his back to t... |
Date: | 09 12 1908 |
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Description: | Demonstration of the Wright Flyer. |
Date: | 07 01 1913 |
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Description: | The Curtiss flying boat in which Jack Vilas made the first flight across Lake Michigan. Vilas, a Chicago businessman, was greeted by a crowd of aerial enth... |
Date: | 09 1908 |
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Description: | Among the spectators present to watch Orville Wright's demonstration of the Wright Flyer at Fort Myer, Virginia, were Lt. Frank P. Lahm (left), one of the ... |
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