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| Date: | 12 1952 |
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| Description: | TWA executives napping during a round-the-world flight in a Constellation 803 organized to survey travel conditions in the Far East. The Lockheed Constella... |
| Date: | 07 26 1950 |
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| Description: | Ricky Pollock of Arlington, Virginia, steps off the plane at the Madison airport for a visit with his grandparents, Charles and Anna Pollock. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | An original lithograph promoting the United Airlines as both a passenger airplane and an Air Mail airplane. The poster states, "This new United Air Lines "... |
| Date: | 08 02 1951 |
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| Description: | Bonnie Wainscott (left), age 16, and her mother Mrs. Grace Wainscott are greeted by Francis M. Higgins, President of Wisconsin Central Airlines. The Wainsc... |
| Date: | 01 15 1952 |
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| Description: | Roy L. Matson, editor of the Wisconsin State Journal, boarding a plane to start a 25,000-mile air tour of Europe and the Near East under the sponsorship of... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Front and back of one-page menu from the Scandia Restaurant, with a whimsical cartoon map rendering by Hakon Mielche of the Scandinavian countries and the ... |
| Date: | 06 1953 |
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| Description: | Brothers Franklin Myers, 19, University of Wisconsin student (left), and Russell Myers, 22, mechanic for the Madison Bus Company (right), bought their own ... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Letterhead for the Wisconsin State Fair, with a state fair ribbon superimposed on a silhouette of the state, and two vignettes of agricultural and industri... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A young man wearing jeans and a t-shirt is handling the luggage as two well-dressed women exit a small seaplane. The pilot is watching from inside the plan... |
| Date: | 11 01 1954 |
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| Description: | A model, and a North Central Airlines stewardess posing at the top of loading stairs leading up to an airliner for Northwest Airlines. The model is posing ... |
| Date: | 10 04 1957 |
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| Description: | Carol Laufenberg, a Madison law firm secretary, boarding a plane headed for the University of Notre Dame where she will be queen of the Arts and Letters Ba... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View towards a man driving a tractor to compact a runway. There is an airplane on the runway in the background. Subject: "Airports — I-9." Where Taken: "Mi... |
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