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| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Six International truck executives posed with model trucks on large globe at International Harvester's Fort Wayne Works. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A souvenir postcard from the 1935 National Model Airplane Championship that featured illustrations of racing planes powered by Shell aviation gasoline such... |
| Date: | 1984 |
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| Description: | A reunion of former members of Hangar 13, an organization of Beloit boys that built and raced model airplanes during the 1930s. |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 06 06 1939 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 06 01 1934 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 09 29 1930 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 10 26 1926 |
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| Description: | Model galleon in front of backdrop with projection reels in the background. |
| Date: | 09 08 1956 |
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| Description: | A young man launches his toy sailboat in the lagoon. |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 07 24 1947 |
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| Description: | Animated display window at Master Furriers, 11 West Main Street, "Madison City of Prosperity," display of miniature storefronts with Madison merchants' sto... |
| Date: | 09 27 1950 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 10 05 1944 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 07 08 1945 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | S-1 freight meets circus train at the Dells Minirama. DBC, Steamboat Winnebago, powerhouse. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Steamboat Hiawatha meeting circus train at the Dells minirama (miniature model), bridge, DBC steamboat and launch. |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | A miniature model of an International truck rests on its side, showing the undercarriage. The model was likely built by Norman Scott of Winnipeg, Manitoba. |
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