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Pilot Cromwell Dixon was America's youngest barnstormer; sketchbook may illustrate the first U.S.-Mexican border survey; metal plates could be the first copy of "Take the A Train."

S8 E5 | Cromwell Dixon; Bartlett Sketchbook; Duke Ellington Plates