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NH 77520 Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher biplane

Photo #: NH 77520 Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher biplane
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Title: Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher biplane
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Description: Leaves the aircraft platform on USS Pennsylvania (Armored Cruiser # 4), on the return flight to Tanforan field, San Francisco, California, 18 January 1911. Ely had landed on the ship earlier in the day. Note boats in the foreground, with several photographers working from them. Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 77520
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