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| Date: | 06 15 1930 |
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| Description: | William McDonald and Merl Buck posing in front of a small airplane with several Air Show trophies on the ground in front of them. |
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| Description: | Harry Houdini in chains and ropes. He is tied to a wheel on a locomotive. |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks of two men posing near the right side of locomotive no. 539 on another set of railroad tracks. The locomotive was built by the ... |
| 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: | 11 06 1924 |
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| Description: | Rellis G. Conant, a former World War I aviator, barnstormer, and attorney, in his Standard J1 airplane with a passenger in the front seat. Conant died in a... |
| 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... |
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| Description: | Portrait of Orville Wright inscribed to aviation publicist and historian Harry Bruno, whose collection of papers and photographs is housed at the Wisconsin... |
| Date: | 07 19 1937 |
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| Description: | International Harvester dealer David Winchell at his office desk. |
| Date: | 08 1928 |
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| Description: | John P. Wood of Wausau, winner of the 1928 National Air Reliability Tour, with his "Waco from Wausau." Also in the photograph are Wood's prizes: the Edsel ... |
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| Description: | Paul H. Poberezny, founder and former president of the Experimental Aviation Association and the winner of numerous aviation awards and titles. Poberezny a... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Cicero Field flight instructors Edward Finan (left) and DeLloyd Thompson seated in a Wright Model B airplane at the Chicago International Air Show. The pla... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Mickey McGuire, a mechanic with the Max Lillie Exhibition Team that was based in Chicago. Pioneer aviator Jesse Brabazon, who knew McGuire from their days ... |
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| Description: | A clown in the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus standing outside a tent near a wagon, with his left hand holding onto a tent rope. He is wearing a beret-style hat,... |
| Date: | 06 07 1935 |
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| Description: | Railroad Week publicity photograph steam locomotive, with a girl in the cab and a railroad worker standing on the engine steps. |
| Date: | 09 06 1931 |
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| Description: | John Siggelko, age 90, and pilot Louis Wuilleumier standing in front of the airplane that took Mr. Siggelko for a ride over Madison and his old farm home a... |
| Date: | 04 03 1931 |
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| Description: | Harold Smith, University of Wisconsin football tackle, working his way through school by cleaning windshields at a Valvoline station. |
| Date: | 08 03 1930 |
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| Description: | Mr. McDonald standing by the TravelAir airplane at the Madison Airport, Coolidge Avenue between North St and Kedzie. |
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| Description: | Brakeman Clarence Commingore (left) and Philip C. Haag on Wisconsin Central Railroad's caboose No #171. The shield caboose markers were exclusive with the ... |
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| Description: | An unidentified engineer and fireman in the cab of a Wisconsin & Michigan locomotive. |
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| Description: | Probably Ernest Joseph Belisle (b. 1901), a singer who recorded for Helene Stratman-Thomas. Helene is standing on the right. |
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