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Book or Pamphlet

Aviation Stories

Date: 1910
Description: The cover of "Tom Swift and His Airship or the Stirring Cruise of the Red Cloud."
Photograph

Waukesha's Primitive Airfield

Date: 1924
Description: A barnstorming pilot and curious onlookers at a field on the outskirts of Waukesha that served as a primitive airport. Technically, the term barnstorming s...
Photograph

First to Fly in Italy

Date: 1909
Description: Crowds of Italians rushing to see Wilbur Wright and his airplane near Rome. After his triumphant demonstration of the "Flyer" in France the previous fall, ...
Photograph

Iowa's First Flyer

Date: 1906
Description: The monoplane glider built and flown by Carl S. Bates of Clear Lake, Iowa. During the previous year Bates had built a bi-plane glider.
Photograph

Boy with Bicycle under Airplane Wing

Date: 1938
Description: Boy standing next to his bicycle under an airplane wing.
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 91-96

Date: 
Description: The visionaries: slightly seeing as many improvements
as there are egos to reckon with

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