asahelcurtis

Aircraft was leased from Glenn Curtiss ( Aero Club of America Pilot #1) by Charles K. Hamilton (Aero Club of America Pilot # 12) The aircraft used in the first flight in Seattle was the same aircraft ( Rheims Racer ) used by Glenn Curtiss to win Gordon Bennett Aviation Cup at Rheims , France August 28,1909 Coupe-Gordon-Bennett the fastest airplane in the world 47.06 mph.

This is the proper persistent URL, content.lib.washington.edu/u?/curtis,2088 Not in the Seattle collection.

Thanks for catching that! I have updated the URL.

Thanks!

Since it's flat and there are no buildings, I'm guessing this shot is near Leschi. "Yesler Way was Seattle's most famous cable car line. It connected Pioneer Square, near the Puget Sound waterfront, with high-lying residential districts and the Leschi recreational area near Lake Washington. Ferries operated from Leschi to Medina and Bellevue. When the line was built, the residential and recreational areas did not exist and the area was almost completely uninhabited. All of the Seattle cable railways were promoted by real estate developers." "The line was promoted by the Seattle Construction Company, with the help of the patent trust's Pacific Cable Construction Company. It was designed and built by Pacific Cable's J M Thompson. Because the company was insufficiently capitalized, the Construction Company operated it until the Lake Washington Cable Railroad purchased it in 1889." Much more on info at www.cable-car-guy.com/html/ccsea.html

Joshua - Thanks for the detailed information and link!!

Wow...1888. Thanks for adding this to King County Creative Commons!