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Babe Ruth

Date: 10 15 1934
Description: Babe Ruth, wearing a dressing gown, signing autographs from a train car during a stopover in Madison.
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"Wrong Way" Corrigan

Date: 08 09 1938
Description: Douglas Corrigan examining a compass with General Evan Humphreys after Corrigan "mistakenly" flew from New York to Ireland. Corrigan claimed that he had re...
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Nehru Visits Madison

Date: 11 04 1949
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...
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Merle Haggard

Date: 07 20 2013
Description: Merle Haggard posing in front of his Super Chief Santa Fe motor coach at the Southside Oktoberfest Grounds. He has his sunglasses hooked in the collar of h...
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Will Rogers in Alaska

Date: 08 15 1935
Description: Will Rogers in an Alaskan pea field in Matanuska Valley.
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Will Rogers in Alaska

Date: 08 15 1935
Description: Caption with negative reads: "Rogers talking with Mrs. I.M. Sandvik, colonist from Moose Lake, Minn. In back of Rogers is Stewart Campbell, property custod...
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Will Rogers in Passenger Seat of Airplane

Date: 08 15 1935
Description: Caption with negative reads: "Rogers in the front seat of the plane, waiting for the take-off. He left the valley with a wisecrack on his lips."
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Will Rogers

Date: 08 15 1935
Description: Will Rogers in foreground, with two men standing behind him on the right, and the airplane in the background. Caption with negative: "Rogers alighting from...
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Will Rogers

Date: 08 15 1935
Description: Caption with negative: "Rogers joshes with transients, asking, 'Any of you boys from Claremore?'" The airplane is in the background.
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Will Rogers

Date: 08 15 1935
Description: Caption with negative: "Rogers and Post a few minutes after landing." Another man is standing in the background on the left.
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Will Rogers in Airplane

Date: 08 15 1935
Description: Caption with negative: "Immediately after Post and Rogers landed with Pilot Chet McLean of Anchorage, with Post in the front seat with the pilot. Chief Pil...

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