A.S. Janin, George Grantham Bain Collection
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Photograph shows Albert S. Janin, a cabinetmaker from Staten Island, who had court battles with Glenn Curtiss over his patent of a hydroplane. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)
Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
Photograph published in The Sunday Oregonian, February 14, 1915 with caption: "That the man who made the hydroaeroplane possible was not Glen [sic] Curtiss but Albert S. Janin, a poor cabinetmaker of Staten Island, was the summary decision rendered by the board of examiners of the patent office." (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
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