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Rolland J. Thomas

Date: 09 02 1946
Description: R.J. Thomas, vice-president UAW-CIO, addresses the crowd at Milwaukee Labor Day celebration, State Fair Park.
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UAW Women Preparing Banquet

Date: 10 1946
Description: Members prepare a banquet to celebrate the eleventh anniversary of Auxiliary No. 2, United Automobile Workers (Seaman Body Company), October 23, 1946. E...
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Amalgamated Lithographers of America Dance

Date: 04 24 1948
Description: "Inter-City Fun Fest" dance sponsored by the Amalgamated Lithographers of America. Chicago's Mrs. Peggy Schabert dances with Mr. Gil Naps, Milwaukee.
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Juggler at United Automobile Workers Dance

Date: 09 06 1947
Description: Juggler performing at the Harvest Festival Dance sponsored by Local 75, United Automobile Workers (Seaman Body Company), State Fair Park.
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Henrietta Williams in Salt of the Earth

Date: 1953
Description: Henrietta Williams as Teresa Vidal addressing a Union meeting in "Salt of the Earth".
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La Crosse Airport Terminal

Date: 03 31 1971
Description: The passenger terminal and control tower at the La Crosse Airport.
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Speed Holmen

Date: 1928
Description: Charles "Speed" Holman and Ed Ballough, the Laird Team, after the New York to Los Angeles air race. Minnesotan Charles Holman earned his nickname by racing...
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Hamilton Metalplane

Date: 1928
Description: Up on floats, an all-metal airplane built by the Hamilton Aero Manufacturing Company of Milwaukee in 1928. Thomas Hamilton already had a national reputati...
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Mitchell at Milwaukee

Date: 1922
Description: General William Mitchell, with his personal airplane and Milwaukee airport manager Giles Meisenheimer at Butler Field, the first Milwaukee County airport. ...
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Astronaut Exhibit at Austin Straubel Airport

Date: 1965
Description: A traveling display about the NASA manned space program on exhibit at Austin Straubel Airport. Included in the exhibit is a model of a space capsule and a ...
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Austin Straubel Airport

Date: 06 13 1965
Description: The restaurant at Austin Straubel Field. In 1965 Brown County completed a new passenger terminal at Austin Straubel Airport that included a large (and appa...
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North Central Airplane

Date: 11 25 1966
Description: A North Central Convair airplane on the ground at Austin Straubel Airport. Green Bay was an important "mini-hub" for North Central, formerly Wisconsin Cent...
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Austin Straubel Airport

Date: 06 13 1965
Description: This new baggage handling area was among the improvements in the new passenger terminal at Austrin Staubel Airport in 1965. Austin Straubel became the coun...
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Austin Straubel Airport

Date: 06 13 1965
Description: The waiting room and escalator at Austin Straubel Airport's new passenger terminal. Austin Straubel became the Brown County airport in 1948, replacing Bles...
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Air Show at Austin Straubel Airport

Date: 08 01 1966
Description: The Bill Adams company prepares to perform ground-to-plane transfer with a clipped-wing Piper Cub at Austin Straubel Airport.
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Helicopter Cockpit

Date: 06 1962
Description: Helicopter cockpit showing the pilot's view of the Vietnamese Delta region below. This photograph was taken by Milwaukee freelance photographer Dickey Chap...
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Marines at Soc Trang

Date: 06 1962
Description: Marines arriving at Soc Trang on a C-130 Hercules transport carrier. Soc Trang was an abandoned landing strip built by the Japanese during World War II. ...
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower at Fort Benning

Date: 1960
Description: President Dwight D. Eisenhower (Ike), as commander-in-chief, inspects a soldier at an exhibition at Fort Benning.
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Helicopters in the Delta Region

Date: 06 1962
Description: Distant view of U.S helicopters over the Delta Region of South Vietnam taken by Dickey Chapelle, a freelance photographer from Milwaukee.
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Vietnam Helicopter Mission

Date: 06 1962
Description: A photograph taken by Milwaukee photographer Dickey Chapelle on board a helicopter that was enroute to Vinh Quoi in the Delta Region of South Vietnam. The ...

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