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Photograph of wreckage from an airplane crash, San Antonio, Texas, December 11, 1918. The inscription notes that Lieutenant Bird was killed in the crash.Inscription on album page: "Fall Styles. San Antonio - Texas. 1918. Lts. Bird and Howe fell…

Photograph of wreckage from an airplane crash, San Antonio, Texas, circa 1918.Inscription on album page: "Fall Styles. San Antonio - Texas. 1918. The wreck of Rex. He took Pvt. Heinson for a joy ride."Part of a photograph album from the J. V. and…

Photograph of wreckage from an airplane crash, Brownsville, Texas, circa 1918. The inscription notes that Major Kirby and Lieutenant Quirk were killed in the crash.Inscription on album page: "Fall Styles. San Antonio - Texas. 1918. Maj. Kirby was…

Photograph of wreckage from a crashed airplane, San Antonio, Texas, circa 1918.Inscription on album page: "Fall Styles. San Antonio - Texas. 1918. Two men tried to drive at once. As usual, the ground settled the argument."Part of a photograph album…

Photograph of young women watching a serviceman, identified in the inscription as Rex, as he refuels a Curtiss JN-4 Jenny aircraft, likely at Taylor, Texas, January 1919. Inscription on album page: "Our week-end visit to Taylor, Texas, Jan. 1919.…

Newspaper clipping, "Airmen warned woman as they fell to death," from an unidentified newspaper, March 26, 1919. Discusses the aircraft accident that killed Harley C. Hyde and William Crabtree. Note that Hyde's first name is misspelled in the article…

Newspaper clipping, "Away" by James Whitcomb Riley, from The Kansas City Times, May 30, 1919.

Newspaper clipping, "Brooks Field flyers give Waco some real thrills," from the San Antonio Express, circa 1919-1920s. Reports on an airshow in Waco, Texas put on by six pilots from Brooks Field, including Jules Verne Hyde. Includes a photograph of…

Newspaper clipping, "Funeral of Lieut. Harley Hyde tomorrow," from an unidentified newspaper, circa 1919. Notes upcoming funeral of Lieutenant Harley C. Hyde.

Newspaper clipping, "Funeral service for K. C. lieutenant," from an unidentified newspaper, circa 1919. Reports on the funeral of Lieutenant Harley C. Hyde.