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Rodgers in Wright Airplane in Wisconsin

Date: 09 14 1911
Description: Calbraith Perry Rodgers in a Wright Model B at Appleton Baseball Park. Cal Rodgers, a member of the famous Perry family, learned to fly at the Wright Flyin...
Photograph

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."
Postcard

Kissel Motor Car Company

Date: 1911
Description: Photographic postcard view of the Kissel Motor Car Company. The elevated view shows the factory buildings, water towers, railroad cars and track. A dirigib...
Postcard

Lawson M.T.2 — Green Bay. Taken in Flight by Jno Carisi

Date: 1917
Description: Photographic postcard showing of a view behind the wing of a Lawson Military Tractor 2 (MT2). Below are fields and in the distance are houses. The photogra...
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Standard Model Whirlwind WACO

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Description: Aerial view of a WACO ASO (also known as J-5 Straightwing and Whirlwind Waco) in flight. Two men are sitting in the front open cockpit, and one man is sitt...
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Sport WACO Rolling into Inverted Flight

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Description: Aerial view of a WACO ATO (also known as 10-T Taperwing) rolling into inverted flight. The airplane is powered by a 220hp Wright J-5 motor.
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WACO

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Description: Three-quarter view from front right of a WACO sitting on a runway. Houses and the Miami County Courthouse are in the background.
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Lawson Air Liner

Date: 1919
Description: Three-quarter view from left rear of the Lawson Air Liner sitting in a field. A ladder is standing near the tail of the plane. Wooden steps and a chair are...

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