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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...
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Automobile Accident Scene

Date: 04 15 1934
Description: Auto accident involving Leo Maly and August Sternhagen vehicles, looking north, County Trunk M, between Speedway Road and Middleton Jct. Road. Leo Maly was...
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Crowd Watches Demonstration of Radio-Controlled Tractor

Date: 1931
Description: Crowd watching a demonstration of a radio-controlled McCormick-Deering Farmall F-30 tractor at an agricultural exhibition or fair.
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Terrace Plowing Demonstration

Date: 09 27 1945
Description: Exhibit of new machinery at the terrace plowing demonstration and conservation field day on the Carl Ribbke farm near Ableman. Some of the 2,000 cars and b...
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Plowing on an IH Demonstration Farm

Date: 04 28 1932
Description: View across field on an International Harvester Company farm towards a group of men standing and watching a plowing demonstration. Several barns and other ...
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Crop Dusting Plane

Date: 06 16 1949
Description: "This crop dusting plane crashed and burned on the Lucy Firk's property on the north end of the village."
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Vice President Nixon Makes a Campaign Stop in Madison

Date: 11 07 1960
Description: The traffic jam of automobiles and pedestrians trying to get to the presidential campaign rally for the-Vice President Nixon at the Madison Municipal airpo...

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