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"Test Pilot"

Date: 1938
Description: A publicity still featuring the lead actors in "Test Pilot," an MGM 1938 motion picture release. "Test Pilot" was the story of a reckless commercial test p...
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Publicity Still from "The Flying Nun"

Date: 08 17 1967
Description: A publicity still from the ABC television situation comedy, "The Flying Nun," which starred Sally Field (center), as Sister Bertrille. With her are actors ...
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"Air Circus" Product Placement

Date: 1928
Description: "Air Circus" (Fox 1928) is the story of two flight school cadets (only David Rollins is pictured) and an accomplished aviatrix, Sue Carol, who can fly ring...
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Skilled Hands at Work

Date: 01 27 1968
Description: Woman working on a wire harness for the lunar module section of an Apollo spacecraft at the AC Electronics division of General Motors Corp. plant.
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"Ceiling Zero"

Date: 1936
Description: Milwaukee-born Pat O'Brien (in the pilot's uniform) starred with Jimmy Cagney as two commercial airline pilots in "Ceiling Zero." This 1936 Warner Brothers...
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"Dive Bomber" Helmet

Date: 1941
Description: A publicity still of Fred MacMurray from "Dive Bomber" (WB, 1941) in which a crew member is adjusting the helmet of MacMurray's pressurized flight suit. Be...
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Marine Flyers Publicity Still

Date: 1935
Description: A publicity still from "Devil Dogs of the Air," (Warner Brothers 1935) in which Milwaukee-born Pat O'Brien appeared with Jimmy Cagney. In this production, ...
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Punch Pressing Handles

Date: 11 27 1967
Description: A machinist running a punch press at Res Manufacturing Company.
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"The Bridges at Toko-Ri"

Date: 1954
Description: Publicity still from "The Bridges at Toko-Ri," a 1954 Paramount Pictures release about the Korean War that starred William Holden (right) as a bomber pilot...
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WWII Red Cross Worker

Date: 03 1945
Description: Betty Sullivan, a Red Cross worker, serves coffee in the interrogation room at Kobler Field, Saipan, for a B-29 flight crew that had just returned from a b...
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Flight Nurse and Wounded

Date: 03 1945
Description: At Iwo Jima Airfield #1 Gwen Jensen, a flight nurse, talks with wounded Marines who are about to be evacuated by airplane. Mount Surabachi, from which the ...
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Bullheaded Bovine

Date: 08 13 1970
Description: A boy tries to convince a Hereford to walk down a ramp at the fairgrounds.
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Communing with the Turtle

Date: 05 07 1967
Description: A boy is holding a turtle close to his face and gazing into its eyes.
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Friendly Badger

Date: 12 19 1968
Description: A vocational student holds a badger at The Ranch, a training center for mentally and physically disabled young adults.
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Kiki, the Pet Crow

Date: 10 18 1966
Description: Michelle Miller smiling at Kiki, her family's pet crow, as he perches on her arm.
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Helicopter Cockpit

Date: 06 1962
Description: Helicopter cockpit showing the pilot's view of the Vietnamese Delta region below. This photograph was taken by Milwaukee freelance photographer Dickey Chap...
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Marines at Soc Trang

Date: 06 1962
Description: Marines arriving at Soc Trang on a C-130 Hercules transport carrier. Soc Trang was an abandoned landing strip built by the Japanese during World War II. ...
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Dickey Chapelle

Date: 1940
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...
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Abandoned Toddlers

Date: 01 13 1965
Description: Toddlers looking into the camera with tears in their eyes. They were found abandoned at the Central YWCA.
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Window Washer

Date: 05 14 1989
Description: A man leans out a window to clean the outside glass.

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