[Crowd watching Curtiss Model D Headless aircraft during air race]

Photograph of a crowd watching a Curtiss Model D Headless aircraft, piloted by William S. Luckey, during an air race, Manhattan, New York, October 13, 1913. The typed caption on a duplicate photograph in the collection notes that the race was held to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Wright brothers' flight at Kitty Hawk.

Inscription: W. S. Luckey / Winner / First American Aerial Derby."

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