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Flying to Sweden

Date: 09 12 1962
Description: Two men stand outside the door to a Pan American airplane. Caption reads: "Leaving New York's Idlewild Airport on way to international conference in Sweden...
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"City of Chicago" Airplane

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Description: Left side view of a man driving a tractor with a continuous tracks wheels in front of an airplane outdoors in a field. The sign on the side of the airplane...
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Police Search & Rescue Plane Lands on Brittingham Bay

Date: 02 08 1961
Description: E.H. Lansdowne, 2910 Stevens Street (R), a city fireman at Station No. 4, and Tom Fawcett, 6104 Bridge Road, pilot, stand next to the Madison Police Depart...
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Vice President Nixon Makes a Campaign Stop in Madison

Date: 11 07 1960
Description: Then-Vice President Nixon leaving his airplane with his wife on a campaign stop in Madison.
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Pilot Holding Infant

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Description: Two men and a woman are in an airplane. One man is sitting and holding a baby. Caption reads: "Madison, Wis. Wisconsin Central Airlines. Pilot or other per...
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Lieutenant-General Hershey and Brigadier General Olson

Date: 1955
Description: Two men smile and shake hands outside an airplane. Caption reads: "Madison, Wis. 1955-1956. Lieut.-Gen. Lewis Hershey (left) former head of the draft, and ...
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Joseph "Roundy" Coughlin Sending Letter to Santa

Date: 1952
Description: A man stands on an airplane stair cart, holding a child in a snowsuit up to a man in the cockpit of an airplane. The child is holding a large envelope. Cap...
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EAA Fly-In Planes

Date: 1981
Description: Visitors to the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) AirVenture fly-in are looking at several airplanes lined up on the airfield.
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EAA Fly-In Crowd

Date: 1985
Description: Elevated view of the crowd assembled to view the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) AirVenture fly-in. People pass through an arch over a stairway at ...
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Airplanes at EAA Fly-In

Date: 08 30 1981
Description: Airplanes lined up on the tarmac at Wittman Regional Airport during the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) AirVenture fly-in. Visitors are looking at ...
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Earl Cherry at EAA AirVenture

Date: 1985
Description: Stunt flyer Earl Cherry performing at the Experimental Aircraft Association AirVenture fly-in.
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Lyndon Johnson Greeted at Airport

Date: 10 30 1964
Description: President Lyndon Johnson accompanied by Governor John Reynolds and Senator Gaylord Nelson is greeted at Mitchell International Airport by girls dressed in ...
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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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Two Christian Missionaries with Airplane Atop a Car

Date: 10 30 1958
Description: Two men are examining a disassembled airplane attached to the roof of an automobile. The airplane belonged to the Rev. Millard Kirkpatrick, right, missiona...
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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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William McBoyle's Passenger Service Plane

Date: 1995
Description: Text on front reads: "1926 photo of William McBoyle's passenger service plane, Watertown, Wisconsin." On reverse: "Front: 1926 photo of William McBoyle's p...
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National German Song Festival Attendees

Date: 07 28 1956
Description: Several people posing outside a Flying Tiger Line airplane, on the ground and on the airstair. The airstair has logos for Northwest Airlines. Caption reads...
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First Wisconsinites to Visit Poland after World War II

Date: 06 18 1956
Description: Ten women and two men posing on the airstair to a plane. Several of the people are waving. The airstair has a Capital Airlines logo. Caption reads: "The...
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1,000,000th Passenger

Date: 12 16 1966
Description: A man in a coat and hat is walking down the airstairs of a plane. Caption reads: "Andrew Depta, of Cable (Bayfield county), set a Gen. Mitchell field recor...
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Zor Shrine Tour of Hawaii

Date: 04 05 1958
Description: Rufus Wells, back, and Leo W. Roethe, right, standing beside the 350 pounds of cheese the Madison Zor Shrine group took with them on their tour of Hawaii. ...

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