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• billdavis

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• SDASM Archives 126 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 18 photos & illustrations
• Public Record Office of Northern Ireland 2 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 2 photos & illustrations
• North East Museums 2 photos & illustrations
• Smithsonian Institution 2 photos & illustrations
• George Eastman Museum 1 photo / illustration
• Royal Australian Historical Society 1 photo / illustration
• SMU Libraries Digital Collections 1 photo / illustration
• OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons 1 photo / illustration
• Florida Memory 1 photo / illustration
• State Library of New South Wales 1 photo / illustration

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Gen. Robt. C. Davis (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Richard Norton said:

  Robert Courtney Davis (October 12, 1876 – September 2, 1944) was an officer in the United States Army who served as Adjutant General of the U.S. Army from 1922 to 1927. www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q97362718

Lt. Com. Noel Davis -- Lt. S.H. Wooster (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• TVL1970 said:

  Hmmm, somewhat unusual for this photo to be in this group of World War I-era photos from the Bain collection. As the reversed inscription in the lower left corner of the frame denotes, this photo was taken in April 1927. Pictured are the doomed aviators Noel Davis and Stanton Wooster, apparently standing on the wing of the ill-fated Keystone K-47 Pathfinder named "American Legion" (reg. N-X 179). Both Davis and Wooster were preparing to fly the American Legion across the Atlantic for the Orteig Prize (ultimately won by Charles Lindbergh flying the Ryan NYP "Spririt of St. Louis" from Roosevelt Field, Long Island to Paris just weeks later) when this photo was taken. Davis and Wooster would perish in a crash landing of the American Legion on April 26, 1927. Ultimately, the aircraft would be salvaged and rebuilt into an airliner which would fly passengers and mail for West Indian Aerial Services and Pan American Airways (PAA "Pan Am"). See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wooster_and_Davis en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone_Pathfinder

• Art Siegel said:

  see also

• Karen (LOC P&P) said:

  TVL1970: Thanks for providing context for this photo. We'll add some of the information to the catalog record next time we update.

• Art Siegel said:

  TVL1970 Any idea what those boxes he is standing in front of contain? Airplane parts?

• TVL1970 said:

  Art Siegel Art, I am close to certain that those are fuel tanks for "American Legion."

Hendricks Hydroaeroplane (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Paul McRae (Delta Niner) said:

  Was this the first ever hydroplane?

• Art Siegel said:

  No, this was August, 1916, so long after its invention.
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaplane#Early_pioneers
  
  see notes under

• Art Siegel said:

  LOC: Should be "Kendrick's Plane"

• Anne (LOC P&P) said:

  Art Siegel: Thanks. We'll be sure to pull together all of the Hendrick/Kendrick records for updating.