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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 03 1909 |
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Description: | Carl S. Bates, a young inventor from Clear Lake, Iowa, about to race the Buick owned by Louis Strang on the beach at Daytona Beach. Bates originally chall... |
Date: | 1943 |
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Description: | Men of the 34th Construction Battalion of Seabees work around a boat dock using an International TD-9 TracTracTor (crawler tractor) at Halavo Seaplane Base... |
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Description: | Image of Curtiss flying an airplane over a body of water. There is a hill along the shoreline in the background. |
Date: | 1915 |
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Description: | View from shoreline of Trout Lake of a group of six men posed with the pilot, possibly Jack Vilas, on an early seaplane or flying boat floating in the wate... |
Date: | 06 19 1949 |
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Description: | Elevated view of crowd at E.H. Myrland's Farm's Sky Lodge at the bathing beauty contest at the dedication of a new swimming pool at the resort which opened... |
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Description: | Aerial left side view of an American Eagle Model A-101 in flight at the same elevation of the airplane in the foreground. The pilot is in the front cockpit... |
Date: | 1950 |
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Description: | A young man wearing jeans and a t-shirt is handling the luggage as two well-dressed women exit a small seaplane. The pilot is watching from inside the plan... |
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Description: | View from shoreline towards a group of men sitting and standing on a seaplane pulled up to the shoreline. The pilot is standing in the cockpit. List of na... |
Date: | 1915 |
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Description: | Caption reads: "Jack Vilas & Weaver." View along front of seaplane, with two men sitting inside. Both men have goggles. Water is in the background. |
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Description: | A man, perhaps the pilot, is standing in front of a seaplane. The plane is sitting in an open-sided building, with a view of water in the background. |
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Description: | Jack Vilas standing on a pier partially submerged in the water. He is wearing a coat, pilot's cap, and goggles on his head. A seaplane is floating in the w... |
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