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Description
2009-1203. View of rescuers in rowboats and remains of Lincoln Beachey's crashed airplane on March 14, 1915. The wings of Lincoln Beachey's airplane broke off while performing a stunt, and he and his plane crashed in San Francisco Bay, causing Beachey's death. A crowd is seen looking on from the waterfront as the airplane remains are being lifted out of the bay.
Type
image
Format
Photographs. Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photographic print (postcard) ; 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.
Identifier
(C)001393254CSL01-Aleph (DRA)VVW-6616
Language
English
Subject
Beachey, Lincoln J.,, 1887-1915--Photographs Panama-Pacific International Exposition, (1915 :. San Francisco, Calif.)--Photographs Aircraft accidents--California--San Francisco Exhibitions--California--San Francisco San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs Photographic postcards Photographic prints
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