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| 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: | 1934 |
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| Description: | The members of Hangar 13, a group of Beloit youth organized to build and race model airplanes. Conrad Hansen, their organizer, is standing at left in the b... |
| Date: | 11 01 1939 |
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| Description: | Battlefield diorama made with soap carvings taken for East High School "Tower Times," 2218-22 East Washington Avenue. |
| 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: | 07 14 1935 |
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| Description: | Robert Grilley, holding his model airplane, receiving first place mahogany plaque in Junior Division of "Jimmy Allen" model airplane races at Royal Airport... |
| 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: | 05 22 1931 |
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| Description: | Fiore Coal & Oil Co. window display in the First National Bank building, 905 University Avenue. The window features a model railroad train layout which is ... |
| Date: | 10 27 1930 |
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| Description: | Three girls are standing beside a model they constructed of Switzerland on a table at Randall School. |
| Date: | 09 29 1930 |
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| Description: | Close-up of display in RKO Capitol Theatre's outer lobby for "Danger Lights." Features a model train from Wolf-Kubly & Hersig with signs saying: "31,000 mi... |
| 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: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Diorama(?) depicting the test of the first mechanical reaper by Cyrus McCormick at Steele's Tavern, Virginia in 1831. The display was likely part of Intern... |
| 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: | 07 01 1935 |
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| Description: | A six-can McCormick-Deering Milk Cooler on display in an International Harvester dealership. A display case on the left near a window holds either toys or... |
| 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. |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | A miniature model of an International truck. The model carries cargo and reads: "Ogilvie's Royal Household Flour." Caption on photograph reads: "Miniature ... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | A model of an International delivery truck. The side of the truck reads: "Hathaway's Bread Cake". |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Alvin Elmer, age 15, holds a model airplane and coal truck that he made. His teacher at Farmer's Grove School wrote on the reverse of the photograph, "This... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Harry Pederson poses while holding a model airplane motor which he built. He is standing outdoors in front of the rear of a car parked near a building. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Styling study of front end for proposed 1937 D-Line 1/2 ton truck, clay mock-up. The final design for production changed from this with different headlight... |
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