(via The Chicken and I: 1921 | Shorpy Historic Photo Archive)
October 10, 1921. Charleston (vicinity), West Virginia. “Alice Curtis and some of her poultry.” Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size.
October 1910, aboard the steamship Trent off Bermuda
Melvin Vaniman, first engineer aboard the hydrogen airship America, with the tabby cat mascot of their ill-fated attempt at the first air crossing of the Atlantic Ocean. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. (orig. from www.shorpy.com)
Wellman airship “America” seen from Trent 1910
Oct. 15, 1910. “Wellman airship seen from Trent.” Walter Wellman’s hydrogen dirigible America just before being abandoned by its crew near Bermuda, 1,370 miles into an attempt to cross the Atlantic from New Jersey. Its engines having failed, the America drifted out of sight, never to be seen again.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_(airship) - From www.shorpy.com
