Pilot Collection (#9)

Nos Aviateurs; l'adjudant Maxime Lenoir, 1916. Creator: Unknown
Nos Aviateurs; l'adjudant Maxime Lenoir, 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVIII. La Guerre Juillet, Aout, Septembre, Octobre, Novembre, Decembre 1916"

Nos Aviateurs; le sous-lieutenant Andre Chainat, 1916. Creator: Unknown
Nos Aviateurs; le sous-lieutenant Andre Chainat, 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVIII

Le general Sarrail en Aeroplane, 1916. Creator: Unknown
Le general Sarrail en Aeroplane; le general Sarrail a pris la place de l'observateur sur un des biplans de ses escadrilles, 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV

Mort heroique d'un Aviateur; l'aviateur Macquart de Terline, 1916. Creator: Unknown
Mort heroique d'un Aviateur; l'aviateur Macquart de Terline, 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVIII

Le sous-lieutenant aviateur Marchal, c1916. Creator: Unknown
Le sous-lieutenant aviateur Marchal, c1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVIII. La Guerre Juillet, Aout, Septembre, Octobre, Novembre, Decembre 1916"

Paul Peck, Commercial Aviator - In Curtiss Type Plane; College Park, 1911. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Paul Peck, Commercial Aviator - In Curtiss Type Plane; College Park, 1911. Early US aviator who died in a plane crash

Flights And Tests of Rex Smith Plane Flown By Anthony Jannus; in plane with Miss Laura Merriam
Anthony Jannus - Flights And Tests of Rex Smith Plane Flown By Jannus; Miss Laura Merriam In Plane with Jannus, 1912. Early passenger flight, USA

Flights And Tests of Rex Smith Plane Flown By Anthony Jannus; in plane with Miss Laura Merriam
Anthony Jannus - Flights And Tests of Rex Smith Plane Flown By Jannus; Miss Laura Merriam In Plane with Jannus, 1912. Early passenger flight, USA

Senorita Lenore Riviero [sic] with Anthony Jannus; In Rex Smith Aeroplane, 1912. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Senorita Lenore Rivero with Anthony Jannus; In Rex Smith Aeroplane, 1912. Early passenger flight, USA. American aviation pioneer Tony Jannus (1889-1916) in a Rex Smith airplane

Flights And Tests of Rex Smith Plane Flown By Anthony Jannus - The Plane with Rufus R... 1912. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Anthony Jannus, Flights And Tests of Rex Smith Plane Flown By Jannus - The Plane with Rufus R. Bermann, Wireless Operator, And Fred Aubert, 1912. Early aviation, USA

Curtiss Airplane - J.A.D. McCurdy, Aviator, 1912. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Curtiss Airplane - J.A.D
Curtiss Airplane - J.A.D. McCurdy, Aviator, 1912. John Alexander Douglas McCurdy, Canadian aviation pioneer, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia

Barres et d'Annunzio; Maurice Barres et Gabriele d'Annunzio a Venise, 18 mai. M.Maurice... c1916
Barres et d'Annunzio; Maurice Barres et Gabriele d'Annunzio a Venise, 18 mai. M.Maurice Barres, qui public dans l'Echo de Paris le recit de son voyage au front italien

Mort de laviateur Boillot; Le lieutenant Georges Boillot, 1916. Creator: Unknown
Mort de laviateur Boillot; Le lieutenant Georges Boillot, 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVII. La Guerre Janvier, Fevrier, Mars, Avril, Mai, Juin 1916"

La guerre aerienne en Macedoine Grecque : un avion ennemi "Descendu" dans le lac... 1916. Creator: Unknown
La guerre aerienne en Macedoine Grecque : un avion ennemi "Descendu" dans le lac amatovo; Le fuselage, souleve avec precaution

Gabriele D'Annunzio et son pilote, le capitaine Ermanno Beltramo, c1916. Creator: Unknown
Gabriele D'Annunzio et son pilote, le capitaine Ermanno Beltramo, c1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVII

La "Saucisse"; Observateur dans sa nacelle, 1916. Creator: Unknown
La "Saucisse"; Observateur dans sa nacelle, 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVII. La Guerre Janvier, Fevrier, Mars, Avril, Mai, Juin 1916"

N.Y. to Wash. Flight aviator Hawley, between 1913 and 1918. Creator: Harris & Ewing. N.Y. to Wash
N.Y. to Wash. Flight aviator Hawley, between 1913 and 1918. American aviator Alan Ramsay Hawley was the first passenger to fly from New York City to Washington, D.C. in May 1916

Wright Bros. Flight, between 1909 and 1912. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Wright Bros. Flight, between 1909 and 1912
Wright Bros. Flight, between 1909 and 1912. American aviation pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright are generally credited with inventing, building

Allied Aircraft - Demonstration At Polo Grounds; Col. Charles E. Lee, British Aviator... 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Allied Aircraft - Demonstration At Polo Grounds; Col. Charles E. Lee, British Aviator, with Senator New, 1917. Colonel Lee (right)

Allied Aircraft - Demonstration At Polo Grounds; Col. Charles E. Lee, British Aviator... 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Allied Aircraft - Demonstration At Polo Grounds; Col. Charles E. Lee, British Aviator, with Avro Training Plane Designed By A.V. Roe of England, 1917

Allied Aircraft - Demonstration At Polo Grounds; Col. Charles E. Lee, British Aviator... 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Allied Aircraft - Demonstration At Polo Grounds; Col. Charles E. Lee, British Aviator, with Avro Training Plane Designed By A.V. Roe of England, 1917

Allied Aircraft - Demonstration At Polo Grounds; Col. Charles E. Lee, British Aviator... 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Allied Aircraft - Demonstration At Polo Grounds; Col. Charles E. Lee, British Aviator, with Avro Training Plane Designed By A.V. Roe of England, 1917

Allied Aircraft - Demonstration At Polo Grounds; Col. Charles E. Lee, British Aviator... 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Allied Aircraft - Demonstration At Polo Grounds; Col. Charles E. Lee, British Aviator, with Avro Training Plane Designed By A.V. Roe of England, 1917

Allied Aircraft - Demonstration At Polo Grounds; Col. Charles E. Lee, British Aviator... 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Allied Aircraft - Demonstration At Polo Grounds; Col. Charles E. Lee, British Aviator, with Avro Training Plane Designed By A.V. Roe of England, 1917

Allied Aircraft - Demonstration At Polo Grounds; Col. Charles E. Lee, British Aviator... 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Allied Aircraft - Demonstration At Polo Grounds; Col. Charles E. Lee, British Aviator, with Avro Training Plane Designed By A.V. Roe of England, 1917

Allied Aircraft - Demonstration At Polo Grounds; Col. Charles E. Lee, British Aviator... 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Allied Aircraft - Demonstration At Polo Grounds; Col. Charles E. Lee, British Aviator, with Avro Training Plane Designed By A.V. Roe of England, 1917

Allied Aircraft - Demonstration At Polo Grounds; Col. Charles E. Lee, British Aviator... 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Allied Aircraft - Demonstration At Polo Grounds; Col. Charles E. Lee, British Aviator, with Avro Training Plane Designed By A.V. Roe of England, 1917. (Note camera held by man on right)

Allied Aircraft - Demonstration At Polo Grounds; Col. Charles E. Lee, British Aviator... 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Allied Aircraft - Demonstration At Polo Grounds; Col. Charles E. Lee, British Aviator, with Avro Training Plane Designed By A.V. Roe of England, 1917

Allied Aircraft - Demonstration At Polo Grounds; Col. Charles E. Lee, British Aviator... 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Allied Aircraft - Demonstration At Polo Grounds; Col. Charles E. Lee, British Aviator, with Avro Training Plane Designed By A.V. Roe of England, 1917

Allied Aircraft - Demonstration At Polo Grounds; Col. Charles E. Lee, British Aviator... 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Allied Aircraft - Demonstration At Polo Grounds; Col. Charles E. Lee, British Aviator, with Avro Training Plane Designed By A.V. Roe of England, 1917

At a Bomber Command Station, 5 July 1944, (1947). Creator: Unknown
At a Bomber Command Station, 5 July 1944, (1947). King George VI and Queen Elizabeth with daughter Princess Elizabeth (future Queen Elizabeth II)

Nearing Home" - Taking on a Pilot, after Frank Brangwyn, 1891. Creator: Unknown
Nearing Home" - Taking on a Pilot, after Frank Brangwyn, 1891. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 44. July to December, 1891

Miss Bernetta Miller, Moissant [sic] - Famous French Aeronautic Family, 1911. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Miss Bernetta Miller, Moissant [sic] - Famous French Aeronautic Family, 1911. [Miller was a pioneering aviator and the fifth licensed woman pilot in the United States

Miss Bernetta Miller, Moissant [sic] Aviatrix - In Bleriot Plane, 1911. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Miss Bernetta Miller, Moissant [sic] Aviatrix - In Bleriot Plane, 1911. [Miller was a pioneering aviator and the fifth licensed woman pilot in the United States

Paul Peck, Commercial Aviator - In Gyro Type Plane Sponsored By Berliner At Mineola, N.Y. 1911. Early US aviator who died in a plane crash

Army Aviation, College Park Aviation Field, 2nd Season - Capt. F.B. Hennessy, Curtiss Plane, 1912. Early aviation, USA

Lieutenant Franklin Kennedy, U.S.A. Aviator - In Curtiss Dual Control Airplane...Maryland, 1912
Lieutenant Franklin Kennedy, U.S.A. Aviator - In Curtiss Dual Control Airplane, Headless; College Park, Maryland, 1912. Early aviator

Aviation, Navy - Commodore J.C. Gillmore In Curtiss Headless Plane, Dual Control... 1912. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Aviation, Navy - Commodore J.C. Gillmore In Curtiss Headless Plane, Dual Control, At College Park Army Flying Field, Lt. Milling, right, 1912. Early aviation, USA

Army Aviation, College Park - Tests of Curtiss Plane For Army - Single Control, 1912. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Army Aviation, College Park - Tests of Curtiss Plane For Army - Single Control, 1912. [Early aviation, Maryland, USA. Lieutenant Thomas DeWitt Milling was the first rated pilot in the history of

Army Aviation - College Park Aviation Field, 2nd Season - Lt. Harry Graham, 1912. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Army Aviation - College Park Aviation Field, 2nd Season - Lt. Harry Graham, 1912. [Early test flights in Maryland. Lieutenant Graham flew Wright Brothers aircraft]

Army Aviation, College Park Aviation Field, 2nd Season - Lt. H. Geiger, Lt. T. Dew. Milling, 1912. [Early aviation pioneers, Maryland, USA

Captain C. Deforest Chandler, U.S. Army Aviator, Comdt. College Park Aviation Field, 1912. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Captain C. Deforest Chandler, U.S. Army Aviator, Comdt. College Park Aviation Field, [Maryaland], 1912. [Colonel Charles deForest Chandler, American military aviator

Army Aviation, College Park - Aviator 2nd Lt. Harry Graham, U.S.Army Inf. 1912. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Army Aviation, College Park - Aviator 2nd Lt. Harry Graham, U.S.Army Infantry, 1912. [Early test flights in Maryland. Lieutenant Graham flew Wright Brothers aircraft]

Claude Grahame-White - Fixing Wing of His Forman Plane, 1910. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Claude Grahame-White - Fixing Wing of His Forman [sic] Plane, 1910. [Early aviation: British pioneer Claude Grahame-White flew his Farman III biplane over Washington, D.C

Grahame-White Flights, 1910. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Grahame-White Flights, 1910. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Grahame-White Flights, 1910. [Early aviation: British pioneer Claude Grahame-White (5th from right) flew his Farman biplane over Washington, D.C

Wright Flights, Fort Myer, Va, July 1909 - First Army Flights; Lt. Frank Lahm And Lt. Fonlois. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Wright Flights, Fort Myer, Virginia, July 1909. First Army Flights; Lt. Frank Lahm And Lt. Fonlois [sic], 1909 July. [The Wright brothers conducted test flights at Fort Myer after the U.S

Miss Bernetta Miller, Moissant [sic] Aviatrix, in Bleriot plane, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Miss Bernetta Miller, Moissant [sic] Aviatrix, in Bleriot plane, between 1910 and 1920. American pioneering aviator Bernetta Adams Miller enrolled for instruction at the Moisant Flying School at

Lieutenant Theodore G. Ellyson, U.S.Navy, Testing Seaplane On Potomac, 1911. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Lieutenant Theodore G. Ellyson, U.S.Navy, Testing Seaplane On Potomac, 1911. [Ellyson was the first United States Navy officer designated as an aviator ('Naval Aviator No)

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