Eugene Millmann motion pictures, 1926-1972.

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Eugene Millmann motion pictures, 1926-1972.

Videotape copies of motion picture footage shot by Eugene Millmann of events in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as well as a few other locations, mostly dating from the 1920s-1930s. The collection contains twenty-six separate clips, including the 1927 Milwaukee parades for aviators Charles Lindbergh and Lester Maitland, the Washington Park Zoo, Milwaukee's 75th and 100th anniversary parades, the 1951 visit of Douglas MacArthur, and the Muirdale Sanitorium. The footage totals 77 minutes in length, is in both black and white and color, and contains no sound. The footage was originally on 16 mm film.

3 VHS video cassette tapes.

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Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974

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Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974) was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, and activist. At the age of 25 in 1927, he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by winning the Orteig Prize for making a nonstop flight from New York City to Paris. Lindbergh covered the ​33 1⁄2-hour, 3,600-statute-mile (5,800 km) flight alone in a purpose-built, single-engine Ryan monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis. While the first non-...

MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964

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General of the Army Douglas MacArthur (26 January 1880 – 5 April 1964) was an American five-star general and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army. He was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II. He received the Medal of Honor for his service in the Philippines campaign, which made him and his father Arthur MacArthur Jr. the first father and son to be awarded the medal. He was one of only five to rise to the ...

Washington Park Zoo (Milwaukee, Wis.)

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Maitland, Lester J., 1899-1990

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Lester J. Maitland was an aviation pioneer and a veteran pilot of World Wars I and II. He joined the United States Army Air Corps and by age nineteen had become a flight instructor. Maitland served as an aide to General Billy Mitchell in 1921 and was chosen as one of the pilots to take part in the sinking of the battleship Ostfriesland which helped to prove the effectiveness of air power against ships. During the 1920's Maitland competed in many air races and exhibitions and in 1922, he became t...

Muirdale Sanitorium.

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Millmann, Eugene, d. 1994.

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