DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
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WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060
Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 76215
Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher biplane
Takes off from USS Pennsylvania (Armored Cruiser # 4)
on the return flight to Tanforan field, San Francisco, California,
18 January 1911. Ely had landed on the ship earlier in the day.
Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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