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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.
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.
Crissy Field
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Oblique aerial photograph of Crissy Field, San Francisco, California, circa 1910s-1930s.Inscription: "Crissy Field [written backwards on negative]."Inscription on envelope: "Crissy Field."
Aerial photograph of the fairgrounds in San Francisco, California, circa 1910s. Inscription: "Taken from Adolph G. Sutro's Hydro Aerolane."Inscription on verso: "Fair Grounds / S.F. Cal."
Photograph of Paul J. Madden (left) and other U.S. Navy servicemen on a cable car, San Francisco, California, circa 1943.Inscription on verso: "X-Mas 1943 / San Francisco / Paul + 2 friends of Joe Trotter on cable car."