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Poster

Buy This Poster Brother, May It Serve You Well Calendar

Date: 1970
Description: Large calendar featuring a montage of "A Great American." Depicted faces include: Billy Graham, Ralph Abernathy, William Stanton, John Mitchell, Mickey Mou...
Photograph

Blimp near Downtown

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Description: Blimp (dirigible) flying over downtown buildings. There are two smokestacks in the foreground, and on the right, a sign, from the back, for "The Electric C...
Photograph

USS "Akron" over Milwaukee

Date: 10 17 1931
Description: View from below of blimp, USS "Akron" during a test flight that took it over Milwaukee.
Poster

Intricate Love Poster

Date: 1968
Description: Finely detailed poster by artist Jonathan Chritton, on the theme of love. Features castles, hot air balloons, and other whimsical features in a symmetrical...
Photograph

Balloon at National Air Show

Date: 1930
Description: A balloon sits in a field at the National Air Show, held at Curtiss-Reynolds Airport. Two people stand near an automobile on the left, and on the right nea...
Photograph

Graf Zeppelin

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Description: Slightly elevated view of a crowd surrounding the Graf Zeppelin inside a hangar. (It was named after the German pioneer of airships, Ferdinand von Zeppelin...
Photograph

Naval Air Station

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Description: A view of the exterior of Hangar No. One of the Naval Air Station. A flag stands atop the steel structure, and through the open section, an airship can be...
Photograph

Naval Air Station

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Description: A view of the airship, "Los Angeles," in Hangar No. One, at the Naval Air Station. The hangar was erected in 1920, and the airship was completed in 1924.
Photograph

Naval Air Station

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Description: A view of the interior of airship Hangar No. One at the Naval Air Station. The "Los Angeles," completed in 1924, is found on the left, and a J-3 blimp, fi...
Photograph

Naval Air Station

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Description: A view of the interior of airship Hangar No. One at the Naval Air Station. The "Los Angeles," completed in 1924, is found on the right, and a J-3 blimp, fi...
Photograph

Naval Air Station

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Description: A view of the exterior of Hangar No. One, a steel structure erected in 1920, at the Naval Air Station and the "Los Angeles," an airship completed in 1924, ...
Photograph

Naval Air Station

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Description: A view of the "Los Angeles" refueling at the Naval Air Station. The airship, completed in 1924, is seen at a tower, flying over a field.
Photograph

Naval Air Station

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Description: A view of "Los Angeles," completed in 1924, at the Naval Air Station. The airship has landed in a field and is loading passengers.
Photograph

Naval Air Station

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Description: A view of the "Los Angeles," completed in 1924, landing in a field at the Naval Air Station. Two Navy officers stand in front of the airship, and a landin...
Photograph

Naval Air Station

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Description: The "Los Angeles," completed in 1924, can be seen flying over Hangar No. One, a steel structure erected in 1920, at the Naval Air Station.
Photograph

Exterior of the Wisconsin At Work Building

Date: 08 1948
Description: A crowd of people outside of the Wisconsin At Work Building at the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition at the State Fair Park. A blimp emblazoned with the word...
Postcard

Kissel Motor Car Company

Date: 1911
Description: Photographic postcard view of the Kissel Motor Car Company. The elevated view shows the factory buildings, water towers, railroad cars and track. A dirigib...
Map or Atlas

Sauk County, Wisconsin

Date: 1990
Description: This late 20th century tourist map of Sauk County, Wisconsin, shows the highways and roads, cities and towns, parks, airports, canoe landings, hospitals, s...
Book or Pamphlet

Balloons Ascending — 1981 SHS Calendar Cover

Date: 1981
Description: Outside front cover of the 1981 State Historical Society calendar. View of hot air balloons ascending near Wisconsin Dells.
Historical Object

The Airship

Date: 1901
Description: Souvenir playing card out of a full deck from the Pan-American Exposition. The Seven of Spades displays a drawing of "The Airship." A round building with a...

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