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Title: Aerial view of Spesutie Island, Maryland
Date Created and/or Issued: 1942
1943
1944
1945
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Aerial view of Spesutie Island, and the grounds used by Edwin Powell Hubble for ballistics experiments and testing. Note in the hand of Grace Burke Hubble: "From the air, Spesutie Island, and the bridge over the Narrows, World War II, experiment ground used by EPH (Also penciled drawings on back) under snow. Huntington Library. Haunted House [Hubbles' residence on Spesutie Island] at bridge's end as it touches the island."
Type: image
Format: image/tiff
Extent: Black and white photograph; 22 x 28 cm (8.5 x 11 in.)
Identifier: HUB 1044 (26)
53373
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/240
Subject: Spesutie Island (Aberdeen, Md.)
Harford County (Md.)
Islands--Maryland
Aerial photographs
Proving grounds
Bridges
Hubble, Edwin Powell, 1889-1953
Hubble, Grace Burke, d. 1980
Aerial Photographs. (aat)
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Harford County (Md.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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