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| 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: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Certificate issued to E.M. Griffith, the Wisconsin State Forester, so that Griffith could prove that he had flown at an altitude of 1600 feet in the "flyin... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Official program for the National Air Races, one of the early airplane races publicized by Harry Bruno and his partner, Richard Blythe. The Bruno Papers a... |
| Date: | 02 15 1932 |
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| Description: | A Milwaukee-Detroit schedule of the Kohler Aviation Corporation. This Kohler company was based in Grand Rapids, Michigan and was unrelated to the Wisconsi... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A baggage sticker that advertises that airline as the "Lindbergh Line" and that is illustrated with a drawing of Lindbergh's plane, the "Spirit of St. Loui... |
| Date: | 07 01 1933 |
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| Description: | A Transcontinental & Western Airline schedule, effective July 1, 1933. Charles Lindbergh began his association with commercial aviation in 1928 when Trans... |
| Date: | 02 01 1948 |
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| Description: | First-flight souvenir schedule of Wisconsin Central Airlines, signed by Company President Francis Huggins when the company headquarters moved to Madison in... |
| Date: | 09 01 1935 |
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| Description: | A schedule for the Milwaukee-Detroit route of Pennsylvania Airlines. Pennsylvania Airlines, founded in 1931, became the successor to the "bridge across La... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | An advertising brochure for the Invincible Cabin Monoplane, an airplane briefly manufactured by the Invincible Metal Furniture Company of Manitowoc. Text o... |
| Date: | 06 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Civil Air Corps card, Escanaba chapter, issued to Meinhardt Raabe. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Holiday card of four children flying in an airplane with Christmas trees painted on the wings and bells on the tail. They are flying over a snow-covered la... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Holiday card of the history of the State of Wisconsin, 1848-1948. Shows a map of Wisconsin with many historical and themed elements. Image was created by w... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Photographic holiday greeting card of three children, one boy and two girls, dressed in winter clothes, holding up an enlarged postcard. On the postcard is... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Holiday card showing Navy Pier in Chicago. There is snow on the ground, the lake is frozen and two lines of planes are flying overhead forming a "V" patter... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Russian greeting card, with a cut-out front, of the IHC logo and evergreen branches with pine cones. Inside the tri-folded card is an image of "Prospy" fly... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Front and back of one-page menu from the Scandia Restaurant, with a whimsical cartoon map rendering by Hakon Mielche of the Scandinavian countries and the ... |
| Date: | 11 22 1963 |
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| Description: | Original UPI Wirephoto transmission. Caption reads: "Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson flanked by his wife Ladybird (L) and the widow of assassinated Presid... |
| Date: | 05 21 1957 |
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| Description: | Menu for a state dinner in honor of General Nathan F. Twining, Chief of Staff, United States Air Force, and Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff. The front cove... |
| Date: | 12 17 1943 |
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| Description: | Front cover and menu from a dinner honoring Orville Wright, on the fortieth anniversary of the first flights of Wilbur and Orville Wright from Kitty Hawk, ... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Letterhead for the Wisconsin State Fair, with a state fair ribbon superimposed on a silhouette of the state, and two vignettes of agricultural and industri... |
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