Return to Naval Historical Center home page. Return to Online Library listing

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060

Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 77524

USS Pennsylvania
(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 Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 91KB; 590 x 765 pixels

 

Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

If you want higher resolution reproductions than this digital image, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

Return to Naval Historical Center home page.

20 December 2002