[View from a Wright Model B biplane over airfield near San Francisco California, made with a folding camera]
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[View from a Wright Model B biplane over airfield near San Francisco California, made with a folding camera]

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Photograph

George E. M. Kelly

Maker
American, 1878–1911

[View from a Wright Model B biplane over airfield near San Francisco California, made with a folding camera]

January 15, 1911
Gelatin silver print
Image: 9 3/4 × 7 5/8 in. (24.8 × 19.4 cm)
Mount: 12 × 9 1/8 in. (30.5 × 23.1 cm)
Gift of Mrs. Fred Fuhrer
Inscriptions inscribed in pencil on mount verso, TRC: slide 70-7
inscribed in pencil on mount verso, BLC: 8244-3-B
printed on applied label on verso (loose), OA:
3-- "Enlargement of picture taken Jan. 15, 1911 by Lt. G.E. Kelly, 30th \ Inf. while carried as a passenger in a Wright biplane. During the \ flight the altitude record for passenger carrying was broken. The \ camera used was presented to Lt. Hunt by Mr. Nelson E. Dutcher. Lt. \ Kelly took six pictures, all of which were good. These are the first \ entirely successful pictures taken from an aeroplane. (Questionable - WBB) \ Five aeroplanes can be seen on the ground. One of them is tuning up in \ preparation for flight. The circle is a target for bombs. Race track \ in the distance. Lt. Kelly's feet and part of Aviator Parmalee's foot \ are in the picture. The pylon below marks the course." \
Donated by Mrs. Fred Fuhrer \ 23 Wooster Street \ Gloversville, N.Y. / Picture taken with a folding camera.
inscribed in pencil on applied label on verso (loose), BLC: acc. 6640-3



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