Harvard-Boston Aero Meet Collection (MS-338)

The collection consists of glass plate negatives, lantern slides, and photographs taken by Anthony Philpott, editor of the Boston Globe. Of particular interest are pictures of Wilbur Wright, Boston Mayor John F. Fitzgerald, President William H. Taft, Claude Grahame-White, Glenn Curtiss, and other distinguished people from that time period.

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John Fitzgerald, Mayor of Boston, at the controls of a Burgess-Wright biplane at the Harvard-Boston Aero Meet, September, 1910
John Fitzgerald, Mayor of Boston, at the controls of a Burgess-Wright biplane at the Harvard-Boston Aero Meet, September, 1910
John Fitzgerald, Mayor of Boston, at the controls of a Burgess-Wright biplane at the Harvard-Boston Aero Meet, September, 1910
Meet officials at the Harvard-Boston Aero Meet, September, 1910
Meet officials at the Harvard-Boston Aero Meet, September, 1910
Pfitzner aircraft wreck at the Harvard-Boston Aero Meet, September, 1910
Ralph Johnstone at the Harvard-Boston Aero Meet, September, 1910
Ralph Johnstone at the Harvard-Boston Aero Meet, September, 1910
Samuel F. Perkins riding a kite at the Harvard-Boston Aero Meet, September, 1910
Spectators at the Harvard-Boston Aero Meet, September, 1910
Spectators at the Harvard-Boston Aero Meet, September, 1910
Spectators standing by a fence at the Harvard-Boston Aero Meet, September, 1910

Harvard-Boston Aero Meet Collection (MS-338)

John Fitzgerald, Mayor of Boston, at the controls of a Burgess-Wright biplane at the Harvard-Boston Aero Meet, September, 1910

John Fitzgerald, Mayor of Boston, at the controls of a Burgess-Wright biplane at the Harvard-Boston Aero Meet, September, 1910

John Fitzgerald, Mayor of Boston, at the controls of a Burgess-Wright biplane at the Harvard-Boston Aero Meet, September, 1910

Meet officials at the Harvard-Boston Aero Meet, September, 1910

Meet officials at the Harvard-Boston Aero Meet, September, 1910

Pfitzner aircraft wreck at the Harvard-Boston Aero Meet, September, 1910

Ralph Johnstone at the Harvard-Boston Aero Meet, September, 1910

Ralph Johnstone at the Harvard-Boston Aero Meet, September, 1910

Samuel F. Perkins riding a kite at the Harvard-Boston Aero Meet, September, 1910

Spectators at the Harvard-Boston Aero Meet, September, 1910

Spectators at the Harvard-Boston Aero Meet, September, 1910

Spectators standing by a fence at the Harvard-Boston Aero Meet, September, 1910

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