[Cygnet I kite on boat]

Photograph of the Aerial Experiment Association's Cygnet I kite aboard its tender, the catamaran Ugly Duckling, being towed into launch position by the steamship Blue Hill, Bras d'Or Lake, Baddeck, Nova Scotia, December 6, 1907. Thomas E. Selfridge is visible in the kite.

Inscription: "Kite Cygnet I, on board the Ugly Duckling, being towed into position over the Little Bras D'Or Lake by the steamer Blue Hill, Dec. 6, 1907. Lieut. Selfridge can be seen stretched at full length in the manhole of the Cygnet."

Caption from bulletin: "6. The kite Cygnet I, on board her tender 'The Ugly Duckling', being towed into position on the Little Bras d’Or Lake by the steamer Blue Hill, Dec. 6, 1907. Lieut. Selfridge can be seen stretched at full length in the man-hole of the Cygnet I."

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.