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Flying Tea Party

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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...
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TWA's Sleeping Passengers

Date: 12 1952
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...
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Man & Woman Boarding Northwest Airliner

Date: 09 09 1940
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...
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Grandson Arriving by Airplane to Visit Grandparents

Date: 07 26 1950
Description: Ricky Pollock of Arlington, Virginia, steps off the plane at the Madison airport for a visit with his grandparents, Charles and Anna Pollock.
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United Airlines Travel Poster: The Mainliner

Date: 1950
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 "...
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Polio Victims

Date: 08 02 1951
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...
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President Lyndon Johnson and the Press

Date: 12 23 1967
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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Wisconsin State Journal Editor Leaving for World Tour

Date: 01 15 1952
Description: Roy L. Matson, editor of the Wisconsin State Journal, boarding a plane to start a 25,000-mile air tour of Europe and the Near East under the sponsorship of...
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Greeting the Duchess

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Description: American journalist Esther Van Wagoner Tufty arriving in Seoul, Korea, at Kimpo (Gimbo) Airport, on a Northwest Orient Airlines airplane. Captions on album...
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Shaplen Arrives

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Description: Robert Shaplen, the tall man with the briefcase, being greeted at an airport in Southeast Asia. Shaplen, who was regarded as the dean of the American journ...
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Truck with Cargomatic

Date: 1970
Description: Color photo of an International truck carrying prepacked airline food to Pan American World Airways Boeing 747 airplane. A man in the foreground gestures t...
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Pan American World Airways Boeing 747

Date: 1970
Description: A Pan American World Airways Boeing 747, with what may be a ground crew walking towards it. A passenger boarding bridge is suspended in the air on the righ...
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International Harvester Scout with Lift Platform

Date: 1970
Description: International Harvester Scout with a lift platform at an airport. A man is standing on the platform to inspect the tail of a Pan American World Airways Boe...
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International Harvester Scout with Lift Platform

Date: 1970
Description: Color photo of an International Scout with a man in a lift platform raised up to the tail of a Pan American World Airways Boeing 747 parked at an airport.
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Obey and Madison

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Description: Congressman David R. Obey (right) and his home secretary Jerry Madison, also a Wausau history teacher, traveling in the district on an airplane.
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Young Columbus Contest Traveler

Date: 04 06 1960
Description: A man (Henry Derleth) wears an overcoat while posed on the middle of the boarding stairway attached to a partially visible passenger airliner. The original...
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Hamilton Metalplane H-21

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Description: Three-quarter view of a Hamilton Metalplane H-21 sitting on a runway. The airplane was equipped with a 400 hp Pratt & Whitney engine. The tail identifier r...
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Esther Van Wagoner Tufty Leaving La Guardia Field

Date: 1948
Description: Typed note with photograph reads: "Pan American World Airways Photo, To Write on Tension in Germany, Miss Esther Van Wagoner Tufty, Washington newspaper co...

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