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Three University of Wisconsin Coeds Studying Aviation

Date: 05 17 1945
Description: Martha Akin from Phoenix, Arizona, Audrey Waldschmidt, Bismarck, North Dakota, and Helen Harger, Pontiac, Michigan, are shown plotting a course for a fligh...
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Dead Seagulls at Truax Field

Date: 10 22 1946
Description: Bert F. Crary, an employee at Truax Municipal Airport, holding three seagulls killed by an airplane as it landed at the airport.
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Navy Football Team Arriving at Truax Field

Date: 10 14 1949
Description: The Navy Midshipmen football team standing in front of and on the stairs to the airplane that brought them from Washington D. C. for the football game with...
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Nehru Visits Madison

Date: 11 04 1949
Description: Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru of India decending the stairs from an airplane at Truax Field. Nehru came to Madison to speak at the University of W...
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Grandson Arriving by Airplane to Visit Grandparents

Date: 07 26 1950
Description: Ricky Pollock of Arlington, Virginia, steps off the plane at the Madison airport for a visit with his grandparents, Charles and Anna Pollock.
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Welcoming Committee for Rear Admiral Roy T. Cowdrey

Date: 05 18 1951
Description: Rear Admiral and Mrs. Roy T. Cowdrey are welcomed by city, state and military officials at the airport. From left: Col. Collins Ferris, commanding officer ...
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Wisconsin State Journal Editor Leaving for World Tour

Date: 01 15 1952
Description: Roy L. Matson, editor of the Wisconsin State Journal, boarding a plane to start a 25,000-mile air tour of Europe and the Near East under the sponsorship of...
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Senator Robert A. Taft Visits Madison

Date: 09 25 1952
Description: Ohio Republican Senator Robert A. Taft and his convention floor manager, Madison's Thomas E. Coleman, are shown at Truax municipal airport standing by the ...
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Madison Summer Activities

Date: 07 09 1958
Description: Four children stand on the observation deck watching planes at the Madison Municipal airport. The children include, from left to right: Carol, 3, Christine...
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Wisconsin State Journal Young Columbus Leaves for Hawaii

Date: 12 26 1958
Description: William Scobie, age 16 of Brodhead, holds a flight bag while embarking an airplane. Scobie won a trip to Hawaii for selling the most subscriptions to the <...
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Rotary Welcomes Fellowship Winner

Date: 09 01 1959
Description: Heinz Portmann of Bern, Switzerland, left, and his wife Jacqueline were welcomed by Rotary members, left to right: Paul Hunter, Rotary secretary; Joseph G....
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New York Governor Visit

Date: 12 15 1959
Description: New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller is greeted by two former governors of Wisconsin at the Madison Municipal Airport. The potential presidential candidate...
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Mrs. Hubert Humphrey Visits Madison

Date: 03 28 1960
Description: Group portrait of Mrs. Hubert Humphrey at the Madison airport with her son Hubert, Jr. (left), Sam Rizzo, Jr., son of the Humphrey campaign chairman in Wis...
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Young Columbus Contest Traveler

Date: 04 06 1960
Description: A man (Henry Derleth) wears an overcoat while posed on the middle of the boarding stairway attached to a partially visible passenger airliner. The original...
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Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. Campaigns in Madison

Date: 09 21 1960
Description: Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. waves good-bye as he boards an airplane after a 90 minute campaign visit to Madison.
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Los Angeles Rams Coach Presented Key to City

Date: 11 08 1960
Description: Ed Diener, left, and Irwin Goodman, center, of the Madison Chamber of Commerce present the key to the city to Bob Waterfield, head coach of the Los Angeles...
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Madison Brothers Buy and Fly Airplane

Date: 06 1953
Description: Brothers Franklin Myers, 19, University of Wisconsin student (left), and Russell Myers, 22, mechanic for the Madison Bus Company (right), bought their own ...

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