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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

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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31 December 2002