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| Date: | 06 1963 |
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| Description: | Children, adults, and a Northwest Airlines Boeing 707 jetliner on the tarmac at General Mitchell International Airport. The children, all first graders fro... |
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| Description: | A tea party on an airplane, a publicity stunt conceived by Harry Bruno to promote his Cleveland-area airline, Aeromarine Airlines. By taking local reporter... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Lincoln Beachey's Curtiss Pusher and the crates in which the airplane was transported by rail to the Sheboygan fairgrounds. At the time, Lincoln Beachey wa... |
| Date: | 04 01 1932 |
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| Description: | A schedule of Transamerican Airlines covering its service to Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, and other Great Lakes cities. The unfolded schedule depicts two p... |
| Date: | 12 1952 |
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| Description: | TWA executives napping during a round-the-world flight in a Constellation 803 organized to survey travel conditions in the Far East. The Lockheed Constella... |
| Date: | 10 18 1955 |
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| Description: | A Northwest Airlines DC-4 plane at the Truax terminal. Originally constructed in 1937 with assistance from the WPA, the Madison Municipal Airport was renam... |
| Date: | 07 15 1997 |
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| Description: | Northwest Airlines celebrated the 50th anniversary of its around-the-globe service to the Orient at Minneapolis Airport in 1997. For this event the airlin... |
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| Description: | Smoking and games in the lounge of a commercial airliner. The original caption for this unidentified photograph reads: "Delicious lunches, even six course ... |
| Date: | 11 25 1966 |
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| Description: | A North Central Convair airplane on the ground at Austin Straubel Airport. Green Bay was an important "mini-hub" for North Central, formerly Wisconsin Cent... |
| Date: | 12 29 1987 |
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| Description: | Bored travelers at General Mitchell International Airport, apparently taking their cue from a droopy travel poster advertising vacations in the sunny Carib... |
| Date: | 05 14 1936 |
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| Description: | A woman is stepping out of an International station wagon while the driver is holding the vehicle's door open. The station wagon is parked near the tail se... |
| Date: | 01 02 1953 |
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| Description: | Football coach Ivy Williamson (?) is interviewed by a man with a radio transmitter on the steps of the airplane upon his return from the Rose Bowl game. |
| Date: | 09 09 1940 |
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| Description: | Man and woman with two suitcases boarding a Northwest airplane. "Hundred to One" It's for You" Manchesters Fall merchandise sale. Advertisement says "Now t... |
| Date: | 11 04 1949 |
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| Description: | Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru of India decending the stairs from an airplane at Truax Field. Nehru came to Madison to speak at the University of W... |
| Date: | 07 26 1950 |
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| Description: | Ricky Pollock of Arlington, Virginia, steps off the plane at the Madison airport for a visit with his grandparents, Charles and Anna Pollock. |
| Date: | 10 20 1950 |
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| Description: | The University of Wisconsin football team boards an airplane taking them to their game at Michigan, played the following day. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | An original lithograph promoting the United Airlines as both a passenger airplane and an Air Mail airplane. The poster states, "This new United Air Lines "... |
| Date: | 08 02 1951 |
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| Description: | Bonnie Wainscott (left), age 16, and her mother Mrs. Grace Wainscott are greeted by Francis M. Higgins, President of Wisconsin Central Airlines. The Wainsc... |
| Date: | 12 23 1967 |
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| Description: | President Lyndon Johnson chats with members of the press corps who are traveling with him on Air Force One during an around-the-world trip that included a ... |
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