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| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Dr. Joseph Smith and family view the glacier at Grindewald during their European tour. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | A Curtiss hydroaeroplane tied down prior to a test flight over San Diego Bay. Two unidentified pilots rest on the dock in the shade of its wing. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Glenn Curtiss sold two hydroplanes (NS 1 & 2) to the U.S. Navy and continued to test them independently from their base also located on North Island. This ... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | An unsuccessful test of Glenn Curtiss' hydroplane in San Diego Bay. The pilot about to be rescued is thought to be Milwaukee's John Kaminski. |
| Date: | 06 1914 |
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| Description: | The Aerodome, invented by Samuel Langley, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, as reconstructed by Glenn Curtiss at Hammondsport. |
| 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: | 10 19 1911 |
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| Description: | Pilot Hugh Robinson and his Curtiss hydroplane at Prairie du Chien during a flight that was intended to be the first all the way down the Mississippi River... |
| Date: | 05 31 1965 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Evangelical United Brethren church in the vicinity of Highway T. |
| Date: | 04 18 1965 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin River in flood, looking downstream. |
| Date: | 08 13 1961 |
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| Description: | A Wisconsin River swamp. The swampy area is framed by trees with more trees in the background hidden by fog. |
| Date: | 09 22 1962 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of trees and pool of water near the Wisconsin River in Pauquette Park. |
| Date: | 07 01 1913 |
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| Description: | The Curtiss flying boat in which Jack Vilas made the first flight across Lake Michigan. Vilas, a Chicago businessman, was greeted by a crowd of aerial enth... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | This photograph from the album of aviation pioneer Jesse Brabazon is described by him as the "first simulated bombing in history, using an aeroplane versus... |
| 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: | 07 21 1921 |
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| Description: | One of the most important moments in the history of American aviation - the sinking of the captured German battleship "Ostfriesland" by American bombers of... |
| Date: | 05 05 1963 |
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| Description: | View across water towards two fishing boats moored at a dock. |
| Date: | 07 04 1965 |
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| Description: | Hills and fog at sunrise, looking out from the north side of the Wisconsin River. |
| Date: | 05 13 1962 |
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| Description: | A twisting pasture stream as seen through a flowering tree. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A Loening Amphibian, one of three such airplanes in which the Kohler Aviation Company provided passenger service from Milwaukee across Lake Michigan. |
| Date: | 05 15 1919 |
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| Description: | Navy seaplanes NC-1 and (in the foreground) NC-3 at Trepassay Bay, the jumping off point for the first attempt to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. Not in the... |
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