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[Curtiss Model D aircraft, piloted by Eugene Ely, landing on USS Pennsylvania] (Item)

Photograph of a Curtiss Model D aircraft, piloted by Eugene Ely, landing on the USS Pennsylvania, San Francisco Bay, California, January 18, 1911. This is credited as the first successful shipboard landing of an aircraft.

[Walter Brookins' Wright Model B aircraft taxiing across water] (Item)

Photograph of Walter Brookins' Wright Model B aircraft taxiing across water, Los Angeles, California, circa 1915. Inscription on envelope: "Walter Brookins' Wright biplane / Griffith Park L.A. / 1915."

[Curtiss Model D aircraft, piloted by Eugene Ely, taking off from USS Pennsylvania] (Item)

Photograph of a Curtiss Model D aircraft, piloted by Eugene Ely, taking off from the USS Pennsylvania, San Francisco Bay, California, January 18, 1911. A large crowd of sailors watches from the ship.

[Ralph Newcomb seated in Wright Model B aircraft] (Item)

Photograph of Ralph Newcomb seated in a Wright Model B aircraft, Griffith Park, Los Angeles, California, circa 1900s-1920s.Inscription on envelope: "Films / Ralph in Wright plane at Griffith Park / 1915 / On Henderson 4 cylinder / M.C. at DeMill [DeMille] Field / 1918."

[Walter Brookins and Archibald Hoxsey with Wright Model B aircraft] (Item)

Photograph of Walter Brookins (right) and Arch Hoxsey (left) with Brookins' Wright Model B aircraft, Los Angeles, California, circa 1910. Inscription on envelope: "Walter Brookins and Arch Hoxsey at [illegible] Field / L.A. / 1910."

[Crowd gathered around wreckage of Calbraith Perry Rodgers's Wright Model B aircraft] (Item)

Photographic postcard of a crowd gathered around the wreckage of Calbraith Perry Rodgers's Wright Model B aircraft, Long Beach, California, April 3, 1912. Rodgers was killed in this crash.

[Calbraith Perry Rodgers's Wright Model B aircraft after fatal crash] (Item)

Photographic postcard of Calbraith Perry Rodgers's Wright Model B aircraft after its fatal crash at Long Beach, California on April 3, 1912. A picture of Rodgers is inset on the left.

[Wreckage of Calbraith Perry Rodgers's Wright Model B aircraft] (Item)

Photograph of the wreckage of Calbraith Perry Rodgers's Wright Model B aircraft, Long Beach, California, April 3, 1912. A crowd of people are looking out the windows of the building in the background. Rodgers was killed in this crash.

[Crowd with wreckage of Calbraith Perry Rodgers's Wright Model B aircraft] (Item)

Photograph of a crowd with the wreckage of Calbraith Perry Rodgers's Wright Model B aircraft, Long Beach, California, April 3, 1912. Rodgers was killed in this crash.

[Wreckage of Calbraith Perry Rodgers's Wright Model B aircraft] (Item)

Photograph of the wreckage of Calbraith Perry Rodgers's Wright Model B aircraft, Long Beach, California, April 3, 1912. Rodgers was killed in this crash.