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| Date: | 08 26 1960 |
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| Description: | Miniature model of the Wisconsin Dells. Goggled diver, Ollie Reese, swimming with Dells recreation boat. This completely landscaped exhibit was built to sc... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | A young woman dressed in a bathing suit and wading boots poses for a promotional photograph for the Wisconsin cranberry industry at Thunder Lake Marsh. Tw... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison students clash with riot police during campus demonstration to protest Dow Chemical involvement in the Vietnam conflict. He... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Four men dressed in fire fighting gear driving a fire truck on State Highway 47 near Appleton. The Wisconsin Highway Commission which published this photo... |
| Date: | 05 02 1956 |
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| Description: | Father demonstrates controls of a mini-race car as his daughter sits in the car. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Dr. Nicholas Senn demonstrates surgical techniques at Rush Medical College. |
| 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: | 05 11 1913 |
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| Description: | The 1911 Wright Model B rebuilt by Jesse Brabazon of Delavan and his partner-mechanic, Frank Shaffer. Brabazon, who is in the pilot's seat, is about to tak... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Jack Vilas (seated) in the Curtiss hydroplane he used to spot forest fires for the Wisconsin Conservation Department. (His companion is not identified.) Th... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Certificate issued to E.M. Griffith, the Wisconsin State Forester, so that Griffith could prove that he had flown at an altitude of 1600 feet in the "flyin... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Commercial pilot Dave Behnke, who later headed Airline Pilots Association, signing for a load of airmail. After service as a pilot during World War I, Behn... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | General William "Billy" Mitchell in the cockpit of his airplane. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | "Doomed Demons" by Eustace L. Adams, part of the Air Combat Stories for Boys series published by Grosset & Dunlap between 1932 and 1946. The cover art is b... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Family portrait, probably taken at Alexander Field in Wausau. Included are an unidentified aviator, his wife, his baby, and a Waco 10 aircraft. Goggles, wh... |
| 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: | 03 1909 |
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| Description: | Carl S. Bates, a young inventor from Clear Lake, Iowa, about to race the Buick owned by Louis Strang on the beach at Daytona Beach. Bates originally chall... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Glenn Martin, who would become one of the great names in the airplane construction industry, in a Curtiss Pusher during the early days of his career in Cal... |
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