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| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | A Standard plane on the golf course of the Waukesha Moor Baths Hotel surrounded by curious onlookers. This landing was representative of the problems encou... |
| 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: | 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: | 1954 |
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| Description: | An aerial view of the air show at Tri-County Airport to celebrate the re-opening of the field under local management. Because of its location at the inters... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | A traveling display about the NASA manned space program on exhibit at Austin Straubel Airport. Included in the exhibit is a model of a space capsule and a ... |
| Date: | 06 13 1965 |
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| 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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| Description: | The airfield of the Hamilton Aero Manufacturing Company which became the site of Milwaukee County Airport in 1926. It was established by Thomas Hamilton, a... |
| Date: | 04 17 1928 |
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| Description: | Mr. Sutton and Fay directing a scene for the movie "American Girl." Three people are standing in front of an automobile parked next to an airplane at Pennc... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Color photograph of an International R-110 panel truck delivering supplies outside an airport restaurant. A delivery man is unloading eggs and other items... |
| Date: | 09 09 1940 |
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| Description: | Man and woman with two suitcases boarding a Northwest airplane. "Hundred to One" It's for You" Manchesters Fall merchandise sale. Advertisement says "Now t... |
| 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: | 09 07 1948 |
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| Description: | The University of Wisconsin football team shown boarding an airplane at Truax Field for a trip to Oakland, California, to play the University of California... |
| Date: | 10 20 1949 |
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| Description: | A group of sixth graders, from Lowell School, are shown with a Northwest Airlines plane at Madison's municipal airport as a part of their study of transpor... |
| Date: | 10 20 1950 |
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| Description: | The University of Wisconsin football team boards an airplane taking them to their game at Michigan, played the following day. |
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| Description: | American journalist Esther Van Wagoner Tufty arriving in Seoul, Korea, at Kimpo (Gimbo) Airport, on a Northwest Orient Airlines airplane. Captions on album... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Group of soldiers talking on a runway at the Camaguey Airport in Cuba one year after the Cuban Revolution. Juan Almeida Bosque, the operating chief of the ... |
| Date: | 05 1961 |
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| Description: | Loading of a military helicopter at Luang Prabang airport. A number of soldiers stand next to the helicopter which has its door open. 55-gallon drums of fu... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | A woman carrying a basket on her back leads a mule laden with bundles across an airstrip at Keukacham village, Laos. There are 55-gallon drums near a tent,... |
| Date: | 12 01 1975 |
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| Description: | President Gerald Ford being officially greeted at the airport by Deng Xiao Ping. Mrs. Ford stands on the President's right; on the far left are Secretary o... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Troops load ammunition and rice delivered by plane to a forward airstrip into an Army helicopter in the Da Nang vicinity of Vietnam. Two of the men are car... |
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