McCurdy's plane being towed alongside a Navy DD

Permanent Link:

http://dpanther.fiu.edu/dpService/dpPurlService/purl/MM00002906/00001

Material Information

Title:

McCurdy's plane being towed alongside a Navy DD

Creator:

May Hill Russell Library -- History Dept
Monroe County Public Library System

Donor:

Henderson, Warren

Publication Date:

1911

Physical Description:

1 photograph : sepia ; 3 x 4 in.

Subjects

Subjects / Keywords:

Aircraft accidents -- Photographs -- Cuba -- Havana ( lcsh )
Destroyers -- Photographs -- United States ( lcsh )
Air pilots -- Photographs -- Canada -- Nova Scotia ( lcsh )

Genre:

picture ( marcgt )

Notes

Scope and Content:

U.S. Navy boat towing McCurdy's plane alongside a Navy DD. Another DD and two boats are in the background. They are towing the plane of Canadian aviator and later politician John Alexander Douglas McCurdy on his semi-sucessful flight from Key West to Havana which was forced to land less than one mile (0.8 km) from its destination, the first time this feat was attempted. Photo taken on Jan. 11, 1911 and donated by Warren Henderson.

Original Location:

History Dept., May Hill Russell Library; 700 Fleming St., Key West, FL 33040.

Record Information

Source Institution:

Florida International University

Rights Management:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/

Resource Identifier:

000000708 ( ALEPH )
AAB2702^^QF^ ( NOTIS )
MM00002906

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