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| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Posed portrait of Wisconsin man John Cookson wearing a helmet and holding a radio headset to his ear. This was during the Spanish Civil War. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Female worker posing in protective apron and sleeves in front of a painted backdrop at International Harvester's Osborne Twine Mill. The Osborne Works was ... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | General William "Billy" Mitchell posing next to an airplane wearing flight gear. |
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| Description: | John L. Lewis, in miner's hat, after West Frankfort, Illinois, mine disaster. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Calbraith Perry Rodgers, with a cigar characteristically clenched in his jaw, was the first man to fly across the United States. He undertook this flight i... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | John Kaminski of Milwaukee in his World War I pilot's uniform. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | John Schwister at the controls of the "Minnesota-Badger," the plane he built in St. Paul, Minnesota and Wausau, Wisconsin. The passenger beside Schwister i... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | General William "Billy" Mitchell in the cockpit of his airplane. |
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| Description: | Astronaut Donald K. Slayton of Sparta, Wisconsin. Slayton enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1942 at age 18 and flew 56 combat missions in B-25s during Worl... |
| Date: | 09 23 1936 |
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| Description: | A glamour portrait of aviator Beryl Markham inscribed to her publicist Harry Bruno. Markham, a former Kenyan bush pilot, had recently completed (but just b... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | "She's Ready to Defend America," a portrait of Georgette Louise Meyer (aka Dickey Chapelle), as a member of the Women Flyers of America, an organization fo... |
| Date: | 10 24 1934 |
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| Description: | Two photographs on one negative of a boy wearing an airplane pilot's helmet and goggles. For Sportman Aviation & Model Airplanes. 4907B-1 is the boy with... |
| Date: | 09 06 1934 |
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| Description: | Two East High football players. 4824B-1 (Unknown). 4824B-2 (Unknown). |
| Date: | 01 19 1934 |
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| Description: | A small race car built by Samuel Olson at the Wisconsin Oil Burner factory, 1134 Regent Street is enjoyed by his sons, Donald Olson, seated, and Gordon at ... |
| Date: | 10 05 1933 |
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| Description: | Two Central High School football players. 4219B-1 is unknown. 4219B-2 is Ernie Mitchell, who is African American. |
| Date: | 06 17 1932 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Mary Wright (Mrs. H. Foster) Bain, who flew her own airplane from her home in Newark, N.J. to her University of Wisconsin reunion. She is posin... |
| Date: | 02 13 1932 |
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| Description: | Green County 4-H Club girl, Helen Haldeman of Monroe, posing in the Madison Gas and Electric Co. demonstration kitchen, while she competes in the state che... |
| Date: | 02 13 1932 |
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| Description: | Wood County 4-H girl, Olive Charboneau of Vesper, mixing pie dough in the Madison Gas and Electric Co. demonstration kitchen. This was during the competiti... |
| Date: | 02 13 1932 |
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| Description: | Dane county 4-H Club girl, Agatha Dermosky, of Sun Prairie, rolls pie dough in the Madison Gas and Electric Co. demonstration kitchen during competition in... |
| Date: | 09 15 1931 |
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| Description: | Two Madison Edgewood High School football players posing in uniform outdoors. Vic Ripp, all-city halfback (L) and Fonse Hughes, fullback (R). The Edgewood ... |
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