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This image has been used in the indicommons.org post: Just Plane Trouble

Like the image above, a very rare and famous stamp was issued in 1918 -- with the aircraft upside down -- as a result of an "accident" at the Post Office ;-) See the Inverted 1918 'Jenny' Airmail Stamp, Block of Four (National Postal Museum) here.

Lt. Torrey Webb at a happier event:

"First day of Airmail Service, May 15, 1918" by Smithsonian

According to the National Postal Museum, this is a description of this accident: "Although the JN-4 "Jenny" was most often used by the army airmail pilots, the service did experiment with another airplane. "Lieutenant Webb was asked to fly a Curtiss R-4 aircraft on June 6, 1918. Webb was to carry the mail from New York to Boston on a trial run to connect the two cities by air. Webb carried a passenger, mechanic Robert Heck, with him on the flight. "Lost because of bad weather during the trip, Lieutenant Webb landed in a pasture to get his bearings, then continued on to Franklin Park aviation field in Saugus, Massachusetts. On landing, the airplane hit a mudhole, flipping over. "Fortunately neither Webb nor his mechanic were injured. The airplane was repaired, and Webb returned to New York five days later with mail and another passenger, Boston's postmaster William Murray. Webb noted that weather wasn't much better on the way back. "Visibility was zero-zero, and I just skimmed over the telephone poles all the way." This airplane has been referred to as both a Curtiss R-4 and a Jenny JN-4 . I don't know if that is a contradiction or not.

I found this photo in a museum in Denver Colorado:


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This picture most definitely belongs to the train crash at Martin's Creek, NJ on April 29th, 1911 as reported in the New York Times here: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B0DE7DB1431E233A... (Report source Easton, PA and description match.)

www.gendisasters.com/data1/pa/trains/easton-trainwreck-fe...

From NY Times, April 13, 1911 query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B0DE7DB1431E233A... EASTON, Penn., April 29. -- A train, carrying 169 school teachers, friends, and relatives, bound from Utica, Syracuse, and Waterville, N.Y., to Washington, was hurled down a forty-foot embankment at Martin's Creek, N.J., nine miles north of this place, about 3 o'clock this afternoon.

Wrecked of teachers' train. So, does it contains teachers during the event? - lirr train schedule

Martain's Creek is now Brainards, New Jersey en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainards,_New_Jersey

It looks like the right side of this image is on this one:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Geotagged : Vintage photographs, and we'd love to have this and any other geotagged vintage photos added to the group!

:) I used to have wooden skis and poles similar to this in the 50s, early 60s. And the ski bindings were like springs around the back of the boots which had deep grooves. What memories! My grand mother used to wear a long skirt with bristles at the bottom when she was skiing (overseas).

These lads were made of pretty stern stuff back then...

lol, great one State Library! You had me fooled! :) I was a bit puzzled why the guy on the left is wearing a short sleeved shirt and the guy on the right an outfit that could have been worn in the snow. But then I thought, some may be feeling hot in the winter sun, some may be feeling cool! I miss those magnificent sand dunes at Cronulla! A great shot in b & w! :)

Yes a Sydney winter can be warm - you can see the sweat on the half buried man's collar

great shot.