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Babe Ruth

Date: 10 15 1934
Description: Babe Ruth, wearing a dressing gown, signing autographs from a train car during a stopover in Madison.
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Wade House

Date: 1858
Description: Ambrotype of the Wade House, a carriage inn located in Greenbush, also showing a section of the original plank road in the foreground.
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Chicago, Milwaukee, and Saint Paul Depot

Date: 1909
Description: Exterior shot of the Blue River depot. Five men are standing outside the building. There is a Wells Fargo cart on the platform.
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Apostle Islands

Date: 1913
Description: Mary Baldwin (Duluth), John Neimeyer (Duluth), and the bow of the "Zenya."
Postcard

Whaleback Steamer "Christopher Columbus"

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Description: Colorized view depicting the passenger excursion vessel, "Christopher Columbus," approaching the East Water Street Bridge. Caption reads: "Whaleback Steame...
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Airline Computer Network

Date: 09 26 1984
Description: A woman uses an early commercial computer network that allows travel agents to book their own flights without the use of a telephone.
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Mitchell Airport Farewell

Date: 06 1963
Description: Children, adults, and a Northwest Airlines Boeing 707 jetliner on the tarmac at General Mitchell International Airport. The children, all first graders fro...
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Mobil Service Station

Date: 06 15 1955
Description: Night view of Robert Blossom's Mobil Gas Station, 3702 East Washington Avenue and Highway 51.
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Northwest Airlines DC-3

Date: 1936
Description: Passengers boarding a Northwest Airlines DC-3 at Madison Municipal Airport. When this airplane was photographed for the WPA by Harold Hone, the DC-3, one o...
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Balloon Ascension

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Description: An unidentified balloon ascension photographed by Milwaukee Journal news photographer J. Robert Taylor.
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Mitchell Passenger Awaiting Flight

Date: 02 23 1985
Description: Young Ben Schreiner of Slinger waiting near the Republic Airlines ticket counter at General Mitchell International Airport for a vacation flight to Florida...
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Lincoln Beachey in Sheboygan

Date: 1912
Description: Lincoln Beachey's Curtiss Pusher and the crates in which the airplane was transported by rail to the Sheboygan fairgrounds. At the time, Lincoln Beachey wa...
Map or Atlas

Map of the Route of Governor J.D. Doty from Green Bay to Prairie du Chien

Date: 1832
Description: Hand-drawn map in two parts of the route of Governor J.D. Doty. Probably made by Doty in 1832 as a result of his travels with Alexander J. Center.
Photograph

Madison's Truax Field

Date: 10 18 1955
Description: A Northwest Airlines DC-4 plane at the Truax terminal. Originally constructed in 1937 with assistance from the WPA, the Madison Municipal Airport was renam...
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Mitchell Airport

Date: 06 18 1955
Description: Control tower and entrance to the new Howell Street passenger terminal at General Mitchell Field shortly before its formal opening in July 1955. The Milwau...
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Austin Straubel Airport and Old Hangar

Date: 06 13 1965
Description: The new passenger terminal at Austin Straubel Airport completed in 1965, with the old hangar in the background. The need for the larger facility reflected ...
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North Central Airplane

Date: 11 25 1966
Description: A North Central Convair airplane on the ground at Austin Straubel Airport. Green Bay was an important "mini-hub" for North Central, formerly Wisconsin Cent...
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Austin Straubel Airport

Date: 06 13 1965
Description: This new baggage handling area was among the improvements in the new passenger terminal at Austrin Staubel Airport in 1965. Austin Straubel became the coun...
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Austin Straubel Airport

Date: 06 13 1965
Description: The waiting room and escalator at Austin Straubel Airport's new passenger terminal. Austin Straubel became the Brown County airport in 1948, replacing Bles...
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Mitchell Weather Watching

Date: 12 29 1987
Description: Bored travelers at General Mitchell International Airport, apparently taking their cue from a droopy travel poster advertising vacations in the sunny Carib...

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