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International Truck Executives

Date: 1960
Description: Six International truck executives posed with model trucks on large globe at International Harvester's Fort Wayne Works.
Postcard

Racing Souvenir

Date: 1935
Description: A souvenir postcard from the 1935 National Model Airplane Championship that featured illustrations of racing planes powered by Shell aviation gasoline such...
Photograph

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.
Historical Object

NAA Championship

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Description: A souvenir from a national model airplane competition. A member of Hangar 13 of Beloit, Wisconsin was a contestant in this event and added this item to his...
Photograph

Astronaut Exhibit at Austin Straubel Airport

Date: 1965
Description: A traveling display about the NASA manned space program on exhibit at Austin Straubel Airport. Included in the exhibit is a model of a space capsule and a ...
Photograph

New Drivers Class at West High School

Date: 06 06 1939
Description: Group of students in the new drivers class stand in front of West High School with a new automobile and a scale model of Madison's streets. Includes five a...
Photograph

Model Airplane

Date: 08 30 1934
Description: Model airplane.
Photograph

Model Airplane Builders Club

Date: 06 01 1934
Description: Group portrait of members of a vocational school model airplane builders club, each holding a model airplane with a diagram of a cambered aerofoil from a c...
Photograph

"Danger Lights" Display in Capitol Theatre Lobby

Date: 09 29 1930
Description: Display in RKO Capitol Theatre's outer lobby for "Danger Lights" and coming attraction "Africa Speaks." Features a model train from Wolff-Kubly & Hersig, w...
Photograph

Model of Spanish Galleon

Date: 10 26 1926
Description: Model galleon in front of backdrop with projection reels in the background.
Photograph

Boy with Model Boat

Date: 09 08 1956
Description: A young man launches his toy sailboat in the lagoon.
Photograph

Rock Prairie Lutheran Church

Date: 1876
Description: Interior of the Rock Prairie Lutheran Church in Luther Valley. Note the model of the sailing ship hanging from the ceiling of the nave, a traditional pract...
Photograph

Animated Display Window

Date: 07 24 1947
Description: Animated display window at Master Furriers, 11 West Main Street, "Madison City of Prosperity," display of miniature storefronts with Madison merchants' sto...
Photograph

Sheaffer Pen and Pencil Sets

Date: 09 27 1950
Description: Display window at Rowley & Schlimgen, 540 State Street, featuring Sheaffer's pen and pencil sets "for school days and career years" and a model trail layou...
Photograph

Rowley & Schlimgen Display Window

Date: 09 20 1950
Description: Display window at Rowley & Schlimgen, 540 State Street, featuring Sheaffer's pen and pencil sets "for school days and career years" and a model train layou...
Photograph

Harry Dyer and Models

Date: 10 05 1944
Description: Captain Harry Dyer, age 80, admiring his model log raft and steam boat in his basement workshop. For 20 years he was a raft boat mate. He left the river in...
Print

International Harvester Toy Catalog Cover

Date: 1973
Description: Cover of a brochure for International Harvester toys. Features a color illustration of a boy riding an International pedal tractor pulling a wagon filled w...
Photograph

August Carsten and Model Trains

Date: 07 08 1945
Description: August Carsten, a builder of one of the few roll-away model trains and villages in the country, is shown at the main control of the electric operated model...
Photograph

Model of Men Working with Farm Equipment

Date: 1932
Description: A model or diorama depicting farmers with a Farmall tractor, truck, harvester-thresher (combine) and a horse in a field. The display was likely part of Int...
Photograph

Minirama Train

Date: 1960
Description: Minirama (miniature model) train.

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