Aviation Gallery

Jean Pierre Blanchard and a small dog ascend from the Walnut Street Prison yard in Philadelphia for the first balloon flight in the United States, 9 January 1793. Wood engraving

BALLOONING: US, 1793.
Jean Pierre Blanchard and a small dog ascend from the Walnut Street Prison yard in Philadelphia for the first balloon flight in the United States, 9 January 1793. Wood engraving

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1793, 1st, American, Ascending, Ascent, Aviation, Ballooning, Blanchard, Dog, Engraving, Flight, French, January, Jean, Late, North, Philadelphia, Pierre, Transportation, Walnut Street Prison

(1878-1930). American inventor and aviator. With John Cyril Porte, George E.A. Hallett, and Katherine Masson at the christening of the Curtiss Model H flying boat America in Hammondsport, New York. Photograph, 22 June 1914

GLENN HAMMOND CURTISS
(1878-1930). American inventor and aviator. With John Cyril Porte, George E.A. Hallett, and Katherine Masson at the christening of the Curtiss Model H flying boat America in Hammondsport, New York. Photograph, 22 June 1914

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1910, 1914, Aeronautical, America, American, Aviator, Biplane, Christening, Crowd, Curtis, Curtiss, Cyril, Early, Exterior, George, Girl, Glenn, Hallett, Hammond, Hammondsport, Hat, Inventor, John, Katherine, Launch, Masson, Men, Model H, Mustache, New York, Photograph, Porte, Research, Science, Seaplane, Transportation, Turn Of The Century, Women

German Zeppelin airship lying helpless in a field near Bourbonne-les-Bains, France, during World War I. Photograph, c1916

WORLD WAR I: ZEPPELIN.
German Zeppelin airship lying helpless in a field near Bourbonne-les-Bains, France, during World War I. Photograph, c1916

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1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, Aerial, Airship, Aviation, Bourbonne Les Bains, Crash, Early, Field, Flight, France, German, Ground, Photograph, Sepia, Tree, World War I, Zeppelin