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Explore more than 100,000 collection items online through the Society’s digital collections. For over two decades, we’ve been scanning, photographing, and digitizing materials from our collections, creating a rich and growing digital archive that brings history closer to you.
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"Dive Bomber" Helmet
1941
A publicity still of Fred MacMurray from "Dive Bomber" (WB, 1941) in which a crew member is adjusting the helmet of MacMurray's pressurized flight suit. Before fully pressurized cabins, this equipm...
"Ceiling Zero"
1936
Milwaukee-born Pat O'Brien (in the pilot's uniform) starred with Jimmy Cagney as two commercial airline pilots in "Ceiling Zero." This 1936 Warner Brothers release was one of many aviation films di...
Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan, Alan Hale, and Arthur Kennedy in "Desperate Journey"
1942
Actors Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan, Alan Hale, and Arthur Kennedy in a scene from the Warner Brothers' film "Desperate Journey."
"Sky Devils" Props
Vintage World War airplanes used in the filming of "Sky Devils" (1932), a motion picture produced by Howard Hughes.
Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in "Casablanca"
1942
Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in a poster still for the Warner production "Casablanca" (Warner 1942).
"Men with Wings"
1938
Beaver Dam's favorite son Fred MacMurray (right) co-starred with Ray Milland and Louise Campbell in "Men with Wings," a 1938 Paramount release that traced the early history of aviation through the ...
