[Members of the Aerial Experimental Association]

Photograph of several members and associates of the Aerial Experimental Association at an airfield near Hammondsport, New York, April 6, 1908. Standing, from left to right: Thomas Scott Baldwin, Frederick Walker Baldwin, J. Newton Williams, John A. D. McCurdy, and Thomas E. Selfridge. Sitting, from left to right: Alexander Graham Bell, William F. Bedwin, and Glenn Hammond Curtiss.

Inscription: "Dr. A.G. Bell, Mr. J. Newton Williams, Capt. T.S. Baldwin, Mr. G.H. Curtiss, Mr. J.A.D. McCurdy, and Mr. W.F. Bedwin near Aerodome shed at Hammondsport, N.Y., April 6, 1908."

Caption from bulletin: "2. Group of persons interested in Aerial Locomotion, including all the members of the A.E.A. Photograph taken in Hammondsport, N.Y., April 6, 1908."

"(Standing left to right): Mr. T.S. Baldwin, who constructed the first dirigible balloon for the United States Government. (Not a member). Mr. F.W. Baldwin, M.E. Toronto University; Chief Engineer of the A.E.A., who made the first public flight in America in a heavier-than-air flying-machine, March 12, 1908, in the Association's Drome No.1, Selfridge's Red Wing, over the ice on Lake Keuka, near Hammondsport, N.Y. Mr. J. Newton Williams, who constructed at Hammondsport, N.Y. a full-sized helicopter to carry a man into the air. (Not a member). Mr. J.A. Douglas McCurdy, M.E. Toronto University. Assistant engineer of the A.E.A. Also treasurer of the Association from the beginning, and Secretary since the death of Lieut. Selfridge. He made the first flight in Canada in a heavier-than-air machine, Feb. 23 1909, in the Association's Drome No. 4, McCurdy's Silver-Dart, over the ice in Baddeck Bay, near Baddeck, Nova Scotia. Lieut. Thomas E. Selfridge, Military expert in Aerodromics, who was killed Sept. 17, 1908, in the accident to Orville Wright's flying-machine at Fort Meter, VA. near Washington D.C. He was detailed by the U.S. Government to observe experiments of the A.E.A. at Baddeck, N.S. and Hammondsport, N.Y. in the interests of the U.S. Army, and acted as Secretary of the Association. He made an ascent in the Association's Kite Cygnet I, Dec. 6, 1907, over the waters of the Bras d'Or Lake, near Baddeck, Nova Scotia."

"(Sitting left to right) Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, Chairman of the A.E.A., the only member of the Association who has not been in the air. Mr. W.F. Bedwin, Superintendent of Mr. Bell's Beinn Bhreagh Laboratory. (Not a member). Mr. Glenn H. Curtiss, Director of Experiments of the A.E.A., and its Chief Executive Officer who made the first measured flight in America in a flying-machine under test conditions, in the Association's Drome No. 3, Curtiss' June Bug, July 4, 1908, when he was awarded the Scientific American Trophy by the Aero Club of America."

Photograph from a bulletin titled "Bulletins of the Aerial Experiment Association," a souvenir volume consisting of eight (8) pages of text and thirty-one (31) photographs illustrating the work of the Aerial Experiment Association, issued April 12, 1909.