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NH 77524 USS Pennsylvania

Photo #: NH 77524 USS Pennsylvania
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Title: USS Pennsylvania
Description: (Armored Cruiser # 4) Scene on the ship's deck, looking aft from amidships on the starboard side during the morning of 18 January 1911. Crewmen are watching for the arrival of Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss biplane, which soon would land on board, the first airplane landing on a warship. Pennsylvania was anchored in San Francisco Bay, California, at the time. Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 77524
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