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| Description: | View of a crop duster spraying a pesticide to control Malaria mosquitoes over a pond. The caption under the image reads: "Aerial 'Gas' Attack Annihilates a... |
| Date: | 04 18 1992 |
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| Description: | "Skunkie," a restored B-25 bomber similar those flown in the famous Jimmy Doolittle Raid on Tokyo. At the 50th anniversary celebration of the raid, "Skunki... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Polio vaccine being unloaded (?) from a Northwest airplane. |
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| Description: | A tea party on an airplane, a publicity stunt conceived by Harry Bruno to promote his Cleveland-area airline, Aeromarine Airlines. By taking local reporter... |
| Date: | 11 1961 |
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| Description: | Secretary of State Dean Rusk being greeted at the Tokyo airport during a goodwill tour. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | The Wright Flyer of Farnum Fish being pushed into position for a demonstration flight at the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds. |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th President of the United States, is shown with his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, having an intense discussion, while seated in an... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | This map includes a red overprint on base map and shows the supervisors and district numbers of St. Croix County. Includes diagrams of civil towns, townsh... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Republican presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon speaks at an outdoor event. There is an airplane in the background. Patricia Nixon is shown seated behin... |
| Date: | 1980 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Congressman David Obey (center, facing the camera) and other members of the congressional delegation and staff that visited Saudi Arabia and Indi... |
| Date: | 07 15 1997 |
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| Description: | Northwest Airlines celebrated the 50th anniversary of its around-the-globe service to the Orient at Minneapolis Airport in 1997. For this event the airlin... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Subject: "Airports — I-9." Where Taken: "MidW." Information with photograph reads: "Northwest Airline's I-9 towing a DC-4 at the Chicago Municipal Airport.... |
| Date: | 09 11 1955 |
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| Description: | The crowd at "Air Progress Day," an air show sponsored by the Waukesha Aviation Club. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for Lucky Strike cigarettes that shows the product name being written as a smoke trail above New York City. The campaign was devised for the... |
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| Description: | Logo of the Hamilton Standard Propeller Company. Thomas Hamilton of Milwaukee began manufacturing propellers during the 1920s. In 1929 Boeing purchased Ham... |
| Date: | 08 1928 |
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| Description: | John P. Wood of Wausau, winner of the 1928 National Air Reliability Tour, with his "Waco from Wausau." Also in the photograph are Wood's prizes: the Edsel ... |
| Date: | 11 04 1949 |
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| Description: | Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru of India decending the stairs from an airplane at Truax Field. Nehru came to Madison to speak at the University of W... |
| Date: | 08 22 1927 |
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| Description: | Crowd greeting the "Spirit of St. Louis" when Charles Lindbergh flew to Madison on August 22, 1927. The crowd at Pennco Field (Royal Airport)was so large ... |
| Date: | 09 05 1913 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin's first air fatality was P.C. Davis, an exhibition pilot from Chicago, who died as a result of injuries sustained during an aerial performance in... |
| Date: | 07 01 1933 |
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| Description: | A Transcontinental & Western Airline schedule, effective July 1, 1933. Charles Lindbergh began his association with commercial aviation in 1928 when Trans... |
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