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Should be Curtiss (not Curtis). See www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Aerospace/Curtiss/Aero2.htm

the glenn h. curtiss museum will be very helpful with figuring out details on any curtiss images. i believe that they have a model of this plane in the building. www.glennhcurtissmuseum.org/

I did this.

its interesting to see how innovation stopped way way prior to the internet. don't it make sense that a run way would be made out of water??

At Keuka Lake, near Hammondsport, upstate New York.

I imagine that was a difficult shot to take with the technology of the time. I particularly like how one of the pilots appears to be looking right at the camera.

maybe G. M. Hecksher, find references to aviator of that name. A Flickr photo here with alternate spelling. www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3575394619/

Harry Angstrom: In both photos here in Flickr, the spelling is G. M. Heckscher, and a search through Google Books of published sources such as the American Aviation Historical Society journal and Glenn Curtiss: Pioneer of Aviation by Alden Hatch (Guilford, Conn: The Lyons Press, 2007), show Heckscher with that spelling, so I think the existing captions can remain. Thanks for the comment!

At Keuka Lake, Hammondsport, New York, 1913.

I found his passport application. He is Gustave Maurice Heckscher (1884-1967). He was born on 15 May 1884 in Philadelphia and it looks like he died in 1967. I will add him to Wikipedia later.