Charles Foster Willard and Jacob Earl Fickel in a Curtiss aircraft at the Harvard-Boston Aero Meet, September, 1910

Creator

Anthony Philpott

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Item Identifier Number

ms338_08_01

Creation Date

1910

Collection

MS-338: Harvard-Boston Aero Meet Collection

Description

The photograph is of Charles Foster Willard at the controls of a Curtiss aircraft and Jacob Earl Fickel sitting beside him holding a .30-caliber Springfield rifle at the Harvard-Boston Aero Meet which was held in Atlantic, Massachusetts from September 3-13, 1910 and was sponsored by the Harvard Aeronautical Society. At the time of the photograph Jacob Fickel was a Lieutenant with the United States Army and is credited with firing the first shot from an airplane. The photograph shows Fickel demonstrating how he fired the first shot from an airplane.

Publisher Repository

Special Collections and Archives; Wright State University Libraries

Digital Publisher

Digital Services Department; Wright State University Libraries

Document Type

Image

Media Type

4x5 Glass Lantern Slide

Permissions

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Date Digital

10-15-2007

Digitization Specification

Epson Expression 10000 XL