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5 Perkins kites holding up a man at the Harvard Aviation Field, Sept. 1910"
Summary
Photograph shows man in air attached to man-lifting kites at Harvard Aviation Field, Quincy, Massachusetts; kites were developed by Samuel F. Perkins for military reconnaissance.
No. 1607AS.
Forms part of Ernest L. Jones collection (Library of Congress).
Photograph from the collection of Major Ernest L. Jones copied by the U.S. Army Air Corps Information Division for presentation to the Library of Congress, ca. 1932.
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Date
1932
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Library of Congress
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