Photograph
Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny" Airplanes in a Field near Madison
| Three Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny" airplanes / biplanes parked in a field with onlookers. An automobile is parked nearby. Airplanes have a black cat symbol in a circle and the numbers are 44192, 44214, 44216 on their sides. Titled in the album "The next day a flock of them came." "The feature of the flight was the delivery of a letter to Postmaster Devine from Pres. William F. Brooks of the Minneapolis Aero Club. This is the first aerial letter ever received in Madison and the first aerial postage stamp ever received here. The flyers are returning from a 3,000 mile run and have been making exhibition flights at state fairs." The Capital Times 9-4-1918. One of five airplane images taken over a two day period. |
| Image ID: | 54623 |
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| Creation Date: | 09 03 1918 |
| Creator Name: | Unknown |
| City: | Madison |
| County: | Dane |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| Collection Name: | Lloyd Jones family collected materials, 1830-2014 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | photographic print, b&w |
| Original Format Number: | M2007-091.076a |
| Original Dimensions: | 5 x 3 inches |
| The Richard & Georgia Lloyd Jones Sr. family photo album was donated to the WHS by their granddaughter Georgia Lloyd Jones Snoke. Richard Lloyd Jones Sr. was editor and publisher of the Wisconsin State Journal from 1911 to 1919. In the late summer of 1919 the family moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where Richard had purchased the Tulsa Democrat, renaming it the Tulsa Tribune, and served as its editor and publisher until his retirement. |
| Land use, Rural |
| Men |
| Outdoor photography |
| Air mail service |
| Signs and symbols |
| Airplanes |
| Automobiles |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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