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| Date: | 07 1910 |
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| Description: | Airplane inventor Glenn Curtiss (with moustache), and his friend and fellow aviator Augustus Post, to his right. Although identified by Warner to 1909, it ... |
| Date: | 11 04 1909 |
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| Description: | Color postcard depicting Arthur Pratt Warner of Beloit flying his Curtiss Pusher for the first time, November 4, 1909. Warner was the first person in Wisco... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | An original print of an early Wright Brothers airplane from the Arthur Pratt Warner collection. The print is unidentified, nor is there any information on ... |
| Date: | 10 10 1902 |
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| Description: | Wilbur Wright gliding down the steep slope of Big Kill Devil Hill at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Much of the Wright Brothers' success derived from the fact... |
| Date: | 08 1983 |
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| Description: | The crowd at the Experimental Aviation Association Fly-in enjoyed a demonstration of World War II bombing. Here two planes fly through the swirling black s... |
| Date: | 03 1909 |
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| Description: | Carl Bates in his airplane. The bottom half of the card shows the beginning of a race between Bates' invention and an automobile. Bates was from Clear Lake... |
| 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: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Cicero Field flight instructors Edward Finan (left) and DeLloyd Thompson seated in a Wright Model B airplane at the Chicago International Air Show. The pla... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Glenn Martin, who would become one of the great names in the airplane construction industry, in a Curtiss Pusher during the early days of his career in Cal... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Chicago Tribune cartoonist John T. McCutcheon with his Wright Model B airplane, probably photographed at Cicero Field. McCutcheon is sometimes referred to ... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Horace Kearney (left), a member of the Curtiss exhibition team, and Hillery Beachey, brother of the famous aviator, Lincoln Beachey. Kearney was familiar ... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | A formal portrait of aviator Charles A. Lindbergh taken at the New York Times Studio just prior to his trans-Atlantic flight because the newspaper had purc... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Lincoln Beachey, shortly before his fatal crash at Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915. During his brief career Beachey was the best known, ... |
| Date: | 11 14 1935 |
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| Description: | Six American Legion members with Stinson airplane, annual membership roundup, William B. Cairns Post, No. 57. Left to right: C.Y. Ballem, Ben Bull, Carl Ch... |
| Date: | 05 26 1932 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Morey Airplane Co. personnel, with five people. Standing left to right: Winston Smith, mechanic, Frank McCormick, pilot and shop super, A... |
| Date: | 09 06 1931 |
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| Description: | John Siggelko, age 90, and pilot Louis Wuilleumier standing in front of the airplane that took Mr. Siggelko for a ride over Madison and his old farm home a... |
| Date: | 05 25 1931 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view from left rear towards the "Keen-Ship" airplane parked on a field, with Charles F. Keen, pilot. |
| Date: | 10 01 1930 |
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| Description: | Merle Buck and a dog in the cabin of "Miss Madison," a TravelAire airplane, at the Madison airport. |
| Date: | 08 03 1930 |
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| Description: | Mr. McDonald in TravelAir airplane at the Madison Airport, Coolidge Avenue between North Street and Kedzie. |
| Date: | 08 03 1930 |
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| Description: | Mr. McDonald standing by the TravelAir airplane at the Madison Airport, Coolidge Avenue between North St and Kedzie. |
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