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 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 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.
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 Golden Gate Bridge, taken by AVG (American Volunteer Group) serviceman Robert H. Neale from a transport ship while en route to the China-Burma-India Theater, San Francisco, California, circa 1941.
Inscription on verso: "Outward…
Photograph of the Golden Gate Bridge, taken by AVG (American Volunteer Group) serviceman Robert H. Neale from a transport ship as it embarks to the China-Burma-India Theater, San Francisco, California, circa 1941.
Inscription on verso: "Still outward…
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…