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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 77525
Aviator Eugene B. Ely
In his Curtiss pusher biplane, ready 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.
Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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