Photograph of a Curtiss Model D aircraft, piloted by Eugene Ely, taking off from the USS Pennsylvania, San Francisco Bay, California, January 18, 1911. A large crowd of sailors watches from the ship.
Photograph of a Curtiss Model D aircraft, piloted by Eugene Ely, landing on the USS Pennsylvania, San Francisco Bay, California, January 18, 1911. This is credited as the first successful shipboard landing of an aircraft.
Photograph of the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California, March 6, 1946.Inscription on album page: "Coming into San Francisco under the Golden Gate Bridge, March 6, 1946."Part of a series of scrapbook pages containing photographs related to…
Photograph of the underside of the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California, March 6, 1946.Inscription on album page: "Coming into San Francisco under the Golden Gate Bridge, March 6, 1946."Part of a series of scrapbook pages containing…
Photograph of a ship passing under the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California, March 6, 1946.
Inscription on album page: "Coming into San Francisco under the Golden Gate Bridge, March 6, 1946."
Part of a series of scrapbook pages containing…
Photograph of Clyde Pangborn (left), Wesley May (center), and Lowell Yerex (right) inspecting a parachute and rope ladder before a barnstorming performance in San Francisco, California, circa 1922. A Curtiss JN-4 Jenny aircraft is in the…
Photograph of the Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, California, circa 1917-1919.Part of a scrapbook containing items related to Sidney Van Wyck Peters' service with the 24th Aero Squadron during World War I, circa 1917-1919.