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The Collection: Photographers: Unknown photographer

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Walter Brookins setting up Wright transitional aircraft for flight, possibly adjusting the balance of the machine on the launching dolley.Unidentified aviator working on Wright transitional aircraft, possibly tending to magneto control.Wright transitional aircraft being prepared for flight on the beach at Atlantic City, New Jersey.
William Jennings Bryan and Walter BrookinsWalter Brookins in a field.Portrait photograph of Frank Coffyn.  Photograph has a pencilled 'X' through it, made while the picture was pasted into the scrapbook.
Portrait photographs of Frank Coffyn (center) and an unidentified man.Portrait photograph of Walter BrookinsPortrait photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Coffyn
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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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