Date: | 1897 |
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Description: | Color lithograph cover illustration for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a steam powered sailing ship named "Progress" with a McCorm... |
Date: | 1917 |
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Description: | A page of snapshots with handwritten captions showing scenes at sea during a storm. Part of a scrapbook of photographs from Stevenson's service in World Wa... |
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Description: | View of a ship called "The Ruby" going out from the mouth of a harbor. |
Date: | 10 26 1945 |
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Description: | Elevated view of the USS Wisconsin Silver Presentation ceremony, with the ship's guns in the foreground. |
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Description: | A bow view of the screw passenger cruise vessel, "South American," docked. Passengers are waiting on the pier. |
Date: | 1931 |
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Description: | Describes the amenities aboard the "North American" and "South American". |
Date: | 03 05 1915 |
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Description: | Two well-dressed men gazing thoughtfully at the ocean at Mobile Bay beach. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Elevated view, probably early 20th century New York Harbor. |
Date: | 1912 |
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Description: | John Kaminski (right) and a fellow student he identified only as "Cy," flying one of the Glenn Curtiss flying boats on San Diego Bay. |
Date: | 1912 |
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Description: | A Curtiss hydroaeroplane tied down prior to a test flight over San Diego Bay. Two unidentified pilots rest on the dock in the shade of its wing. |
Date: | 1912 |
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Description: | An unsuccessful test of Glenn Curtiss' hydroplane in San Diego Bay. The pilot about to be rescued is thought to be Milwaukee's John Kaminski. |
Date: | 1912 |
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Description: | Calbraith Perry Rodgers, with a cigar characteristically clenched in his jaw, was the first man to fly across the United States. He undertook this flight i... |
Date: | 05 15 1919 |
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Description: | Navy seaplanes NC-1 and (in the foreground) NC-3 at Trepassay Bay, the jumping off point for the first attempt to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. Not in the... |
Date: | 05 07 1944 |
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Description: | Navy SPD-1 bomber over Truk. Moen Island is in the foreground, Fefan is at the right, and Etan is directly below the plane. |
Date: | 05 22 1944 |
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Description: | Physical exercise aboard an aircraft carrier during World War II. This photograph was a part of a scrapbook compiled by Philip F. La Follette, former gove... |
Date: | 02 1945 |
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Description: | Airfield #1, Iwo Jima, with Mt Surabachi in the distance. This image is one of many taken by Milwaukee photographer Dickey Chapelle during the assault on ... |
Date: | 02 1945 |
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Description: | Iwo Jima Airfield #1, as it appeared nine days after the initial assault. On the runway is a C-47 transport plane, the military equivalent of the DC-3. T... |
Date: | 1883 |
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Description: | Engraving of a woman carrying a bundle of clothing and standing with her back to the sea. Behind her other women are in the process of doing wash in the wa... |
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Description: | A CH-37 Mojave helicopter landing on an aircraft carrier. This helicopter type could carry 26 troops or two jeeps. It was used for aircraft recovery in Vie... |
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