Aviation before the WWI

Hanriot monoplane - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Graham White [i.e., Claude Grahame-White] in Harmon Aero

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ZR-3 over Long Island - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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SAMPAIO CORREIA - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Aviators at Pittsburgh; Aug. Post, Mars and wife, Curiss and wife, Bal...

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De la Rue aeroplane (Ferber's), in flight

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Aerial photographs - Johnstone - Glass negative photogrpah. Public dom...

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"La Fregate" - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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A. Fokker looping - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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White's wrecked machine towed back

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Mme. Franck - Public domain portrait photograph

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Silver Dart - Aeroplane at Hammondsport

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Union Square, scene of anarchist bomb-throwing, New York

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Russian Princess Schaikowski [and] Aviator Abramowitsch

Photo shows aviators Wssewolod Abramovitch (1890-1913) and Russian princess Eugenia Mikhailovna Shakhovskaya (1889-1920). The two aviators were in a plane crash in 1913 in which Abramovitch was killed. (Source... More

Germany -- Captured French Plane -- Morane Saulnier type

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Katherine Stinson and her aeroplane

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Meckler-Allen Aeroplane - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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[Airplane] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Jack McGee - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

David McCulloch - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows aviator David McCulloch (McCullough). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)

Henry Salvey - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Espanat [i.e., Espanet] aviator

Photo shows French aviator Gabriel Espanet (b. 1883). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010)

Malcolm Allison - Gliding - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Meckler-Allen Aeroplane - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Germany - Albatross type - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Filling balloon on Wanamaker's - Glass negative photogrpah. Public dom...

Photo shows men inflating a hydrogen balloon, "Wanamaker no. 1," on the roof of the John Wanamaker store, Broadway and Tenth Ave., New York City, to travel to Philadelphia. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009... More

The Willoughby Hydro-aeroplane. Pelican.

Photo shows the Pelican, a biplane designed in 1911 by Hugh L. Willoughby to land on water. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008)

Tripoli - Ital. [i.e., Italian] Army Post

Photograph shows Italian soldiers with airplane in Tripoli, Libya during the Turco-Italian War (Italo-Turkish War) which took place between September 1911 and October 1912. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008)

SCHLEY, WINFIELD SCOTT, REAR ADMIRAL, U.S.N. FUNERAL, ST. JOHN'S CHURC...

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ELLYSON, THEODORE C. LIEUT. U.S.N. TESTING SEAPLANE ON POTOMAC

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AVIATION, ARMY. COLLEGE PARK AVIATION FIELD, 2ND SEASON. CAPT. F. B. H...

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George H. Dyott - Public domain portrait photograph

Photo shows George Miller Dyott (1883-1972), a pioneer aviator, who was in the news in 1913 when he was thrown from his plane. (Source: Flickr Commons project and New York Times archive, 2009)

N.Y. TO WASH. FLIGHT AVIATOR HAWLEY

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[Spirit of St. Louis airplane] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public dom...

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Men in basket of Zeppelin Air Ship

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Eshault-Pelterie aeroplane, in flight

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Bleriot - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Army plane and Cotton Duster - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...

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Clement-Bayard after collapse & fall

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Lt. Com. Mitscher & Lt. Barin Landing

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Vernon Castle - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows ballroom dancer Vernon Castle (1887-1918) in an airplane. Vernon Castle worked and taught with his wife Irene (Foote) Castle (1893-1969). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

H.C. Cooke in Curtis biplane - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...

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J.C. Mars in Curtiss Aeroplane - Glass negative photogrpah. Public dom...

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Wellman airship from "Trent" - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...

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Lt. Pelletier D'Oisy & Mech. Besin

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[Claude] Grahame-White's wrecked machine towed back, Bain News Service...

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Eugene Ely - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Deck of "Pennsylvania" showing the Curtiss biplane

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Latham. Plane flying. - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Navy dirigible - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Parachute Jump from SHENANDOAH blimp

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Clifford B. Harmon. Seated in airplane.

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Glenn Curtiss at pilot's wheel of his biplane

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Berliner Helicopter - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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setern of ZR-1 showing rudders - Glass negative photogrpah. Public dom...

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Norge Leaving Hanger (blimp) - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...

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Brookins and Coffyn flying - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Pilot House of R-34 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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J.C. Mars - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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[Plane] British Handley Page - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...

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Pilot House R-34 -- just after landing

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Republique - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Martin Bomber - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Arrival Moissant's aeroplane - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...

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LINDBERGH, CHARLES, COLONEL. WITH PLANE MODEL

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Blimp, Zeppelin No. 3, in flight

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Blimp, Zeppelin No. 3, in flight

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Farman flying machine, in flight

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Aeroplane of Dr. Greene, on ground

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Bleriot, in workshop, in his flying machine

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Harriman Hydroaeroplane - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photo shows hydroplane designed by Frank Herbert "Bert" Harriman, an early aviation pioneer. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008)

Meckler-Allen Aeroplane - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Lincoln Beachy aloft - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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German Biplane Ago type - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

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ATWOOD, HARRY. AVIATOR. IN PLANE WITH LEO STEVENS

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[Woman and man next to airplane]

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JANNUS, ANTHONY. FLIGHTS AND TESTS OF REX SMITH PLANE FLOWN BY JANNUS....

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AVIATION, NAVY. COMMODORE J. C. GILLMORE IN CURTISS HEADLESS PLANE, DU...

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JANNUS, ANTHONY. FLIGHTS AND TESTS OF REX SMITH PLANE FLOWN BY JANNUS....

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Zeppelin III at Luneville - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photo probably shows the German war dirigible, Zeppelin IV, which landed on the parade ground of Luneville, France in April 1913. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010 and New York Times, May 4, 1913)

Paulham's aeroplane - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Mascot cat "Spark Plug" [on plane]

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Clement-Bayard after collapse & fall

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Twining ornithopter, flying machine with bird-like wings

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Capt. C.C. Wyllie - Public domain portrait photograph

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Early automobiles - 4th July - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...

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Latham - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Capt. Thomas S. Baldwin - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Aubrun - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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[Hydro-plane] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Aviators on Cunard Pier - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Lt. W.D. Coney & Spec. DH - 4B Army plane

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Gabrilowitsch - Public domain photograph

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Blimp, Zeppelin No. 3, in ground shed

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NC-3 at Horta - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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NC-4 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Paulhan in aeroplane greets his wife in a balloon, both in flight

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Barling bomber - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Portrait photo of Cosulich plane -- Marquis Centurione & parents

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