Photo #: NH 77513
Mrs. Mabel Ely
On board USS Pennsylvania (Armored Cruiser # 4), during
the morning of 18 January 1911, awaiting the arrival overhead
of her husband, the aviator Eugene B. Ely, in his Curtiss biplane.
He landed on board shortly afterwards, the first airplane landing
on a warship.
Pennsylvania was then anchored in San Francisco Bay, California.
Note Mrs. Ely's camera.
Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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