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| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Richard M. Nixon welcomed by Barbara Bird, Honey Queen, and Wisconsin Governor Vernon W. Thomson with cheese package at the Oshkosh Airport. |
| Date: | 06 1963 |
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| Description: | Children, adults, and a Northwest Airlines Boeing 707 jetliner on the tarmac at General Mitchell International Airport. The children, all first graders fro... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | The groundbreaking ceremony for the new airport hangar at Wausau. Governor Fred R. Zimmerman, who can be seen on the right, (elevated above the crowd and w... |
| Date: | 10 18 1955 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 01 1967 |
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| Description: | Greeting astronaut James A. Lovell (4th from the left) and his wife at the airport are Wisconsin Governor Warren P. Knowles (2nd from the left) and Mrs. Do... |
| Date: | 01 1934 |
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| Description: | An aerial view of the Oshkosh Airport about three years after Steve Wittman became the manager. The field was established in 1928 by Oshkosh Airport, Inc.... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | A Hamilton Metalplane, which was manufactured by the Hamilton Aero Manufacturing Co. of Milwaukee, at the Milwaukee County Airport. |
| Date: | 08 1980 |
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| Description: | Airplanes entered in the 10th World Acrobatics Championships at Wittman Field in Oshkosh. The planes in the foreground are those of the Australian and Cana... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Experimental Aviation Association (EAA) crowds at Wittman Field in Oshkosh during the mid 1980s. The control tower is in the background. |
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| Description: | The new passenger terminal at Truax Field, also known as Madison Municipal Airport. At the back is an outdoor observation deck and a view of the original W... |
| Date: | 08 12 1930 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Ringling Brothers Circus at Madison airport from the top of a hangar located on Coolidge between North and Kedzie. |
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| Description: | Scene at airport welcoming soldiers home from the Persian Gulf War. |
| Date: | 08 03 1946 |
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| Description: | Lieutenant General Eaker at the Madison airport in front of a B-17 bomber. He is shown with State Representative K. Henry (R-Jefferson) and welcoming commi... |
| Date: | 10 23 1960 |
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| Description: | Presidential candidate John F. Kennedy at the Madison airport with state Democratic leaders. To Kennedy's left are Governor Gaylord Nelson and state Democr... |
| Date: | 09 18 1952 |
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| Description: | Senator Joseph R. McCarthy speaking with reporters at LaGuardia Airport shortly after his victory over Len Schmitt in the Wisconsin Republican primary. McC... |
| Date: | 10 08 1960 |
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| Description: | The speakers platform during a Presidential campaign rally for Richard M. Nixon at Billy Mitchell Airport in Milwaukee. With Nixon on the platform are Kirb... |
| Date: | 08 28 1962 |
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| Description: | At Mitchell Airport, Senator Alexander Wiley greets the young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Underborg of Waukesha with a kiss. Mrs. Wiley, holding a bouquet of ... |
| Date: | 10 10 1953 |
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| Description: | As chairman of the Senate Investigating Committee Senator Joseph R. McCarthy traveled to New York City to hold closed hearings on alleged Communist espiona... |
| Date: | 08 1946 |
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| Description: | Distribution of campaign literature for Joseph R. McCarthy's primary campaign by the Young Republican's Flying Badger Squadron. The two pilots photographed... |
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