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NH 77597 USS Pennsylvania

Photo #: NH 77597 USS Pennsylvania
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Title: USS Pennsylvania
Description: (Armored Cruiser # 4) Ship's Commanding Officer, Captain Charles F. Pond, (front row, left center), with some of the guests and dignitaries on board to observe Eugene Ely land his Curtiss pusher biplane on the ship, during the morning of 18 January 1911. They are standing at the forward end of the temporary landing platform built over the ship's stern. The canvas safety barriers in front and behind them were intended to catch the plane and pilot in case he overshot the landing zone. Mrs. Mabel Ely, wife of the aviator, is near the right end of the group, wearing a light colored coat. Pennsylvania was then anchored in San Francisco Bay, California. Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 77597
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