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The Collection: Photographers: Unknown photographer

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Frank Coffyn flying near a tugboat, New York Harbor.Model B on a flying field.Frank Coffyn flying a Model B with a passenger.
Model B in flight over a field.Model B in flight (digital positive made from original negative).Philip Parmalee and Frank Coffyn in front of a Wright Model B.
Model B in flight (digital positive made from a negative).Two men and a woman on a field. The man in the plaid cap may be Coffyn.Count Jacques de Lesseps (right), two men and a woman on a field.
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For most of the images in the collection, the photographer is unknown. The Wright team attracted a great number of photographers eager to fill newspapers and magazines with pictures of the brand new aeroplane. Although the pilots obliged their many requests, on one occasion a group of photographers ran out in front of Walter Brookins' plane as he was beginning to land. Brookins had no choice but to immediately nose his airplane into the ground to avoid hitting them.


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