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F.J. Bersbach [and] Harold McCormick (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

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• Lisa Yarost said:

  The date on the lower left side of the image says 6-11-13 I don't know what type of flying machine they're sitting in, but they certainly did not go anywhere in it. They were dressed for photo opps, not flying. :-)

• cotinis said:

  It looks like there is something about this in the Smithsonian Arcihves, NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE ARCHIVES Ernest Jones Aeronautical Collection Accession XXXX-0096 (PDF), p. 21: L.A. "Jack" Vilas's flying boat, 1913, with portraits of F.J. Bersbach, H.F. McCormick and Vilas I'm not sure if that really adds any information! Harold McCormick seems to be: Harold Fowler McCormick (1872 – 1941) was chairman of the board of International Harvester Company. (Wikipedia article).

• Noël Zia Lee said:

  They do appear to be in Vilas's flying boat: www.aviationhalloffamewisconsin.com/inductees/vilas.htm

• swanq said:

  According to memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=hhdatapage&fileN... a Frank J Bersbach was the son of Alfred Bersbach, owner of a Wilmette Illinois house documented in the HABS survey. See hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.il0312

• swanq said:

  Harold F McCormick left a collection of aeronautica to Princeton: diglib.princeton.edu/ead/getEad?eadid=C0496 He appears to have been one of the organizers of the first International Aviation Meet held in Grant Park, Illinois, in 1911 and the owner of a hydroplane built for him by Glenn Curtiss. So this may be his own plane.