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Farmall Cub Tractor Towing Airplane

Date: 05 1949
Description: Airport worker using a McCormick Farmall Cub tractor equipped with towing bar and special towing bracket to tow a small twin-engine airplane at the Elmhurs...
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Rodgers in Wright Airplane in Wisconsin

Date: 09 14 1911
Description: Calbraith Perry Rodgers in a Wright Model B at Appleton Baseball Park. Cal Rodgers, a member of the famous Perry family, learned to fly at the Wright Flyin...
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Wisconsin's First Aviation Fatality

Date: 09 05 1913
Description: Wisconsin's first air fatality was P.C. Davis, an exhibition pilot from Chicago, who died as a result of injuries sustained during an aerial performance in...
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Morey's Flying Billboard

Date: 04 17 1928
Description: Howard Morey posing in an airplane that advertised Pennco Oil, his distributorship of Waco airplanes, and his flying school. Two women sit in front of him....
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Airplane Mechanic Works from International Truck

Date: 1972
Description: Color photograph of a mechanic working on the engine of a DC-3 airplane from the back of an International 1010 Custom pickup.
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International R-110 Panel Truck

Date: 1952
Description: Color photograph of an International R-110 panel truck delivering supplies outside an airport restaurant. A delivery man is unloading eggs and other items...
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Airplanes Parked in Field

Date: 1930
Description: Three airplanes are parked in a field. Several men and a woman are standing and sitting among the airplanes. The event was likely the National Air Show in ...
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Halavo Seaplane Base

Date: 1943
Description: Men of the 34th Construction Battalion of Seabees work around a boat dock using an International TD-9 TracTracTor (crawler tractor) at Halavo Seaplane Base...
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"Spirit of St. Louis"

Date: 08 22 1927
Description: The "Spirit of St. Louis," in which Charles Lindbergh made the first solo Atlantic crossing, arrives in Madison, where it was greeted by crowds.
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Los Angeles Rams Coach Presented Key to City

Date: 11 08 1960
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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Zor Shrine Tour of Hawaii

Date: 04 05 1958
Description: Members of the Madison Zor Shrine group boarding their plane at the Madison airport for their tour of Hawaii.
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Joseph "Roundy" Coughlin Sending Letter to Santa

Date: 1952
Description: A man stands on an airplane stair cart, holding a child in a snowsuit up to a man in the cockpit of an airplane. The child is holding a large envelope. Cap...

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