[Wreckage from airplane crash]

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 killed in this crash with Lieut. Quirk at Brownsville, Texas."

Part of a photograph album from the J. V. and Harley Hyde Collection, 1918-1919. Album contains 38 black-and-white photographs documenting the military service of the Hyde brothers.

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