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| Date: | 07 21 1958 |
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| Description: | Three-year-old twins at an annual twins picnic licking lollipops. |
| Date: | 05 07 1967 |
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| Description: | A boy is holding a turtle close to his face and gazing into its eyes. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | General William Mitchell, with his personal airplane and Milwaukee airport manager Giles Meisenheimer at Butler Field, the first Milwaukee County airport. ... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Young boy sitting outdoors on a chair drinking a glass of milk. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Alexander Legge (1866-1933). Legge was president of International Harvester Company from 1922 to 1929. He was vice chairman of the War Industri... |
| Date: | 09 23 1936 |
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| Description: | A glamour portrait of aviator Beryl Markham inscribed to her publicist Harry Bruno. Markham, a former Kenyan bush pilot, had recently completed (but just b... |
| Date: | 05 09 1917 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Streeter, wife of Chicago eccentric George Wellington Streeter, posing with her dog in her garden in "Streeterville." |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | "She's Ready to Defend America," a portrait of Georgette Louise Meyer (aka Dickey Chapelle), as a member of the Women Flyers of America, an organization fo... |
| Date: | 01 13 1965 |
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| Description: | Toddlers looking into the camera with tears in their eyes. They were found abandoned at the Central YWCA. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Vernon Castle, half of the glamorous Castle dancing team, enlisted in the British Royal Flying Corps in 1915 and flew over 150 missions at the Western Fron... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Two young girls holding up plants from a vegetable garden. Houses are in the background. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Cicero Field flight instructors Edward Finan (left) and DeLloyd Thompson seated in a Wright Model B airplane at the Chicago International Air Show. The pla... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Mickey McGuire, a mechanic with the Max Lillie Exhibition Team that was based in Chicago. Pioneer aviator Jesse Brabazon, who knew McGuire from their days ... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Charles Dickenson, a wealthy Chicago businessman and an early supporter of aviation. In addition to serving as president of the Chicago Aero Cl... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | A formal portrait of aviator Charles A. Lindbergh taken at the New York Times Studio just prior to his trans-Atlantic flight because the newspaper had purc... |
| Date: | 08 18 1935 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising the air show held to mark the dedication of the airport in Waukesha, an event sponsored by the Waukesha Aviation Club. Present to dedica... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Candid portrait of John Steuart Curry working in his studio, holding paintbrushes. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A portrait of Alvin C. Reis of Madison during his service in World War I. During the war, Reis commanded several observation balloon squadrons. Later, he b... |
| Date: | 12 11 1918 |
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| Description: | Two men, at least one of them a miner, standing in front of the no. 7 opening to the no. 2 mine. Benham was a "company town" created by International Harve... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Clyde Beatty, with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus, sits on a chair outside a circus tent with two young tigers. |
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