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Manitowoc Airport Manager

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Description: Pilot Louis Kakuk, manager of the Manitowoc Airport, with his Waco airplane. Kakuk's career followed a typical pattern for aviators, moving from the freewh...
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Reliability Tour

Date: 1928
Description: Race winners John P. Wood and Archie Towell, both of Wausau, during the National Air Reliability Tour's stop in Wausau.
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Lee's Oshkosh Airplane

Date: 1932
Description: In order to undertake a trans-Atlantic flight to Norway, Clyde Allen Lee sought financial support from the local Oshkosh clothing company. The sign painted...
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Larson Brothers' Airport

Date: 1923
Description: The hangar and three airplanes (a Canuck and a J-1 Standard) at the airport operated by the Larson Brothers of Larsen, Wisconsin. The field was both the mo...
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Pesticide Spraying

Date: 1925
Description: Loading an airplane with calcium arsenate in order to spray for the hemlock looper pest in Peninsula State Park. This is believed to be the first such use ...
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Model Builders' Reunion

Date: 1984
Description: A reunion of former members of Hangar 13, an organization of Beloit boys that built and raced model airplanes during the 1930s.
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First to Fly — Later Wright Airplane

Date: 1910
Description: An original print of an early Wright Brothers airplane from the Arthur Pratt Warner collection. The print is unidentified, nor is there any information on ...
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First to Fly — Side View of Wright Airplane

Date: 1910
Description: An original vintage print from the Arthur Pratt Warner collection of a two-seat Wright airplane. The airplane is identified on the print only as a 1910 mac...
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Curtiss Airplane and Glenn Martin

Date: 1909
Description: Glenn Martin, who would become one of the great names in the airplane construction industry, in a Curtiss Pusher during the early days of his career in Cal...
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McCutcheon and Airplane

Date: 1911
Description: Chicago Tribune cartoonist John T. McCutcheon with his Wright Model B airplane, probably photographed at Cicero Field. McCutcheon is sometimes referred to ...
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Los Angeles Air Meet

Date: 01 1910
Description: The grandstand at the Los Angeles Aviation Meet, the first international aviation event held in the United States. The plane on the ground near the center ...
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Portage View

Date: 1856
Description: View of Portage, including St. Mary's Church.
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Train Wreck

Date: 1914
Description: Elevated view of the wreck of a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad train at Corliss. A large crowd of men are watching as a Bucyrus crane is lifting a car b...
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Grafton Viaduct

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Description: View across field towards the railroad bridge, seen with the construction almost completed. A man is standing in the middle of the bridge, and two or three...
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Washburn Observatory

Date: 1880
Description: Elevated view of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Washburn Observatory. Hill, trees and fields are in the background. A man is standing near a small obs...
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Ruins

Date: 1920
Description: View of an old home or inn. Two people are looking out of an open window, and two men are standing outside leaning against the building.
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Farmhouses Near Taliesin

Date: 1911
Description: Two farmhouses and the surrounding snowy landscape near Taliesin, the home of Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Elevated View of Town

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of the town.
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Castle Rock in Camp Douglas

Date: 1937
Description: Castle Rock. Castle Rock is an example of a monadnock or inselberg, a geological formation common in northern and central Wisconsin.
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Natesta Cabin Site

Date: 07 15 1925
Description: Natesta cabin site in Clinton. View down road, with a fence on the right, and fields on both sides.

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