DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
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Photo #: NH 77564
Aviator Eugene B. Ely
Seated in his Curtiss pusher biplane, while preparing to take
off from USS Pennsylvania (Armored Cruiser # 4) to return
to land, 18 January 1911. The ship was then at anchor in San
Francisco Bay, California.
Photographed by Weidner.
Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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