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Two Men With an Old Airplane

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Negative of a photograph of two men with an old airplane in a field near some houses in 1918.

The Moody Brothers With Their Plane on Runway

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Negative of the Moody Brothers standing by their plane with other unknown men on a runway in Decatur, IL.

Spectators in a Field

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Negative of a group of spectators by their cars in a field. Possibly taken at Kiick Field.

Photo of Lieut. James Leonard Walker in uniform

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Herald and Review Library: Walker, Lieut. James Leonard; Article on back of photo; "Lieut. James Leonard Walker of the U. S. Marine Corps received his wings and was commissioned July 6 at Pensacola, Fla. After six weeks of navigation school at…

Moody Brothers with Plane

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Photograph of the Moody Brothers and an unknown man with standing by the tail of an airplane with an automobile in the background.

Moody Brothers

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Photograph of the tree Moody brothers standing by their airplance, Big-B.

Louis Carl Waltens

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Photograph of Louis Carl Waltens; (died 11/20/1948). Owner of Decatur's first travel agency and a supporter of aviation in 1911. He and August Hendrian were the first to won and pilot an airplane in Illinois. He ws in the nursery and grocery…

John Harmon Kiick

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Negative of John H. Kiick with an airplane on March 27, 1931.