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| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | The ceremony marking the first Wisconsin Central Airlines flight at Madison. Margaret "Mickey" Morey, the wife of Howard Morey, is about to cut the ribbon.... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | A Wisconsin Central Airlines pilot walking toward a twin-engine Lockheed 10A airplane parked on the runway at Truax Field. |
| Date: | 07 17 1958 |
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| Description: | Governor Vernon W. Thomson (left) receives a membership card, and citation, in the Northwest Airlines Top Flight Club for his support of air transportation... |
| Date: | 06 02 1959 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Orville Akre, District Manager of Northwest Orient Airlines. |
| 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: | 01 08 1952 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the newly elected officers of the Wisconsin Central Airlines Local No. 780, International Association of Machinists. Seated left to right... |
| Date: | 01 23 1947 |
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| Description: | Area teachers attending an aviation education program boarding a Northwest Airlines DC-3 plane at Truax Field along with some members of the flight crew. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | A Beechcraft 18 in the former Air Force hangar at Truax Field. This photograph was taken shortly after Wisconsin Central Airlines moved its headquarters fr... |
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| Description: | Two men and a woman are in an airplane. One man is sitting and holding a baby. Caption reads: "Madison, Wis. Wisconsin Central Airlines. Pilot or other per... |
| 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: | 12 17 1947 |
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| Description: | The University of Wisconsin basketball team in 'natty' attire posing in front of a Northwest Airlines plane. They are taking the plane to San Francisco on ... |
| Date: | 06 21 1976 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a woman standing between two men. In the background is a Northwest Airlines airplane. The woman is wearing a crown, and a sash that reads... |
| Date: | 02 19 1958 |
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| Description: | Hollington K. Tong, Nationalist China Ambassador to the United States (left) and O.C. Akre, Madison representative of Northwest Orient Airlines (center) ar... |
| Date: | 04 07 1933 |
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| Description: | Ira Chambers of the Atlas Distributing Co. is shown receiving the first case of Atlas Beer, of Chicago, Illinois, from the pilot of a Northwest Airlines pl... |
| Date: | 04 07 1933 |
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| Description: | In an obvious publicity stunt, a Northwest Airways pilot delivers the first case of post-Prohibition Atlas Beer to Madison distributor Ira Chambers. The sh... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Workmen overhauling the engine of a Wisconsin Central airplane in the airline hangar at Truax Field. Formerly known as Madison Municipal Airport, the field... |
| Date: | 02 28 1958 |
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| Description: | Phil Koepcke is holding a plaque awarded to Koepcke Travel Agency for its outstanding contributions to the development of civil air transportation. With hi... |
| Date: | 06 02 1956 |
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| Description: | Dr. John A. Schindler of Monroe was the speaker at the banquet of the national convention of Theta Sigma Phi at the Hotel Loraine. Shirley Staub, left, was... |
| Date: | 06 05 1959 |
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| Description: | New members of the Madison Chamber of Commerce are welcomed at an open house at the chamber offices, 23 W. Main Street. Edward I. Diener (left) Sears, Roeb... |
| Date: | 04 07 1960 |
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| Description: | Contest winner George Byrne, surrounded by his family, wears an overcoat, white shirt, tie and fedora (hat) while holding a TWA travel bag. The original ca... |
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