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| Date: | 04 05 1958 |
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| Description: | Members of the Madison Zor Shrine group boarding their plane at the Madison airport for their tour of Hawaii. |
| Date: | 09 27 1954 |
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| Description: | A group of men pose in front of Capital Airlines airplane at Madison Municipal Airport - Truax Field. |
| Date: | 07 09 1958 |
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| Description: | Four children stand on the observation deck watching planes at the Madison Municipal airport. The children include, from left to right: Carol, 3, Christine... |
| 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: | 10 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Northwest and North Central airplanes, a DC3 and a Conair, in front of the terminal building of the Madison Municipal Airport. |
| 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: | 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: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of a North Central Airlines DC-3 airplane flying over the Madison isthmus. Clearly visible are the Wisconsin State Capitol, the 1 West Wilson S... |
| Date: | 06 16 1954 |
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| Description: | Three Madison West High School students board a plane to spend the summer in Europe under the American Field Service International Scholarship Program. Lef... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | An aerial view at Truax Field showing the Municipal Airport Administration Building. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Two men smile and shake hands outside an airplane. Caption reads: "Madison, Wis. 1955-1956. Lieut.-Gen. Lewis Hershey (left) former head of the draft, and ... |
| Date: | 12 15 1959 |
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| Description: | New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller is greeted by two former governors of Wisconsin at the Madison Municipal Airport. The potential presidential candidate... |
| 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: | 10 21 1950 |
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| Description: | The Wisconsin Badgers football team gets a warm welcome from a crowd of fans at Truax Field upon their return to Madison despite their 26-12 loss to the Un... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of a new landing strip at Truax Field as photographed from a low-flying airplane. |
| Date: | 01 23 1952 |
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| Description: | Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, a Republican Presidential candidate, prepares to board a Wisconsin Central airplane in Madison after meeting with supporter... |
| Date: | 03 22 1958 |
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| Description: | Forrest J. Carleen, Minneapolis (right), district representative of the Channel Master Corporation, is presented a plaque for being "the outstanding post i... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Wisconsin State Capitol, including a bit of the airplane wing. |
| Date: | 04 05 1958 |
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| Description: | Rufus Wells, back, and Leo W. Roethe, right, standing beside the 350 pounds of cheese the Madison Zor Shrine group took with them on their tour of Hawaii. ... |
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