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Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor CompanyCreated by: PICRYL - Public Domain Media Search EngineDated: 1917
4th July, George Grantham Bain Collection
The Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company was created on January 13, 1916, from the Curtiss Aeroplane Company of Hammondsport, New York and Curtiss Motor Company of Bath, New York. With the onset of World War I, military orders rose sharply, and the company moved its headquarters and most manufacturing activities to Buffalo, New York, where there was far greater access to transportation, manpower, manufacturing expertise, and much-needed capital.

In 1917, the two major aircraft patent holders, the Wright Company and the Curtiss Company had effectively blocked the building of new airplanes, which were desperately needed as the United States was entering World War I. The U.S. government, as a result of a recommendation of a committee formed by Franklin D. Roosevelt, then Assistant Secretary of the Navy, pressured the industry to form a cross-licensing organization (in other terms a Patent pool), the Manufacturer's Aircraft Association.

Curtiss was instrumental in the development of U.S. Naval Aviation by providing training for pilots and providing aircraft. The Company worked with the United States' British and Canadian allies. By the end of World War I, the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company would claim to be the largest aircraft manufacturer in the world, employing 18,000 in Buffalo and 3,000 in Hammondsport, New York. Curtiss produced 10,000 aircraft during that war, and more than 100 in a single week.
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CURTISS AIRPLANE. TESTS OF CURTISS PLANE FOR ARMY. GENERAL VIEWS

CURTISS AIRPLANE. TESTS OF CURTISS PLANE FOR ARMY. GENERAL VIEWS

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CURTISS AIRPLANE. TYPE R. PLANE

CURTISS AIRPLANE. TYPE R. PLANE

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Assembling "AMERICA" - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Assembling "AMERICA" - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows the launch of the Curtiss Model H Flying Boat airplane "America" on June 22, 1914 in Hammondsport, New York. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011 and Glenn Curtis: Pioneer of Flight, Cecil R. ... More

NATIONAL AERO COAST PATROL COMMN.: CURTISS HYDROAEROPLANE OR FLYING BOAT EXHIBITED NEAR HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING. BOWMAN; FRANKENFIELD; PEARY; SMITH; FRED KELLY

NATIONAL AERO COAST PATROL COMMN.: CURTISS HYDROAEROPLANE OR FLYING BO...

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Glenn Curtiss - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Glenn Curtiss - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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["Hammond" airplane], George Grantham Bain Collection

["Hammond" airplane], George Grantham Bain Collection

Aviator formerly misidentified as Glenn Hammond Curtiss, but this pilot lacks mustache. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Lieut. Porte & Cabin of Transatlantic flyer

Lieut. Porte & Cabin of Transatlantic flyer

Photograph shows aviator John Cyril Porte with the Curtiss Model H Flying Boat airplane "America" which was launched on June 22, 1914. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011 and Glenn Curtis: Pioneer of Flight, ... More

Mrs. G. Curtiss - Public domain portrait photograph

Mrs. G. Curtiss - Public domain portrait photograph

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Mrs. G. Curtiss, George Grantham Bain Collection

Mrs. G. Curtiss, George Grantham Bain Collection

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

F.L. de Riemsdyk at pilot wheel of Curtiss aeroplane

F.L. de Riemsdyk at pilot wheel of Curtiss aeroplane

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Curtiss Wright Corp., Caldwell, New Jersey. View showing administration building and plant

Curtiss Wright Corp., Caldwell, New Jersey. View showing administratio...

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Lena Pearl Neff Curtiss, wife of Glenn Hammond Curtiss

Lena Pearl Neff Curtiss, wife of Glenn Hammond Curtiss

3/4 lgth., seated in biplane, facing slightly left. J145344 U.S. Copyright Office This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI; Shelf.

CURTISS AIRPLANE TESTS AND DEMONSTRATIONS; TWIN ENGINE BIPLANE, POTOMAC PARK

CURTISS AIRPLANE TESTS AND DEMONSTRATIONS; TWIN ENGINE BIPLANE, POTOMA...

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Manpower. Negro aircraft propeller workers. Workers of many racial groups contribute their skills to war production. This Negro worker is checking the size and shape of a propeller blade in a large Eastern airplane propeller factory. Reading the blade with a template requires keen eyes and high precision. Curtiss-Wright Propeller Division. Caldwell, New Jersey

Manpower. Negro aircraft propeller workers. Workers of many racial gro...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War... More

Curtis[s] flying boat - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Curtis[s] flying boat - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photo "flying boat" produced by Glenn Curtiss, on the surface of Lake Keuka, New York State. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009)

CURTISS AIRPLANE TESTS AND DEMONSTRATIONS; TWIN ENGINE BIPLANE, POTOMAC PARK

CURTISS AIRPLANE TESTS AND DEMONSTRATIONS; TWIN ENGINE BIPLANE, POTOMA...

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CURTISS AIRPLANE. KIRKHAM TRIPLANE. LANGLEY FIELD

CURTISS AIRPLANE. KIRKHAM TRIPLANE. LANGLEY FIELD

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[Vernon Castle in front seat of biplane, Curtiss Aviation School, Newport News, Va.]

[Vernon Castle in front seat of biplane, Curtiss Aviation School, Newp...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. "402 A.S." Ernest L. Jones Collection.

AIR MAIL. INAUGURATION OF SERVICE, POLO FIELD. START OF 1ST CONTINUOUSLY SCHEDULED SERVICE. CURTISS JN-46-H PLANE. PRESIDENT AND MRS. WILSON

AIR MAIL. INAUGURATION OF SERVICE, POLO FIELD. START OF 1ST CONTINUOUS...

Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pn... More

CURTISS AIRPLANE TESTS AND DEMONSTRATIONS; TWIN ENGINE BIPLANE, POTOMAC PARK

CURTISS AIRPLANE TESTS AND DEMONSTRATIONS; TWIN ENGINE BIPLANE, POTOMA...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a biplane aircraft, pilot, aviator, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

H.C. Cooke in Curtis biplane - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

H.C. Cooke in Curtis biplane - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a biplane aircraft, pilot, aviator, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Aviation, Curtis [sic] at Atlantic City

Aviation, Curtis [sic] at Atlantic City

Photograph shows four men on the beach watching a biplane flying over the ocean.

4th July, George Grantham Bain Collection

4th July, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows a Fourth of July parade on Fifth Avenue, New York City in 1918 with a Curtiss bombing plane mounted on a truck. View is south on 5th Avenue at 58th Street. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 201... More

Glenn Curtis - Public domain portrait photograph

Glenn Curtis - Public domain portrait photograph

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F.L. de Riemsdyk and Glenn Curtiss standing by aeroplane

F.L. de Riemsdyk and Glenn Curtiss standing by aeroplane

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, aviator, 1910s-1920s, early 20th-century aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

NATIONAL AERO COAST PATROL COMMN. CURTISS HYDROAEROPLANE OR FLYING BOAT EXHIBITED NEAR HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING. RIPLEY BOWMAN

NATIONAL AERO COAST PATROL COMMN. CURTISS HYDROAEROPLANE OR FLYING BOA...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, aviator, 1910s-1920s, early 20th-century aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Curtiss Wright Corp., Caldwell, New Jersey. Entrance detail

Curtiss Wright Corp., Caldwell, New Jersey. Entrance detail

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Mrs. Glenn Curtiss, George Grantham Bain Collection

Mrs. Glenn Curtiss, George Grantham Bain Collection

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

Lt. C.G. Chapman near Casas Grandes

Lt. C.G. Chapman near Casas Grandes

Photograph shows pilot Lt. Carleton G. Chapman with Curtiss JN-3 "Jenny" U.S. Army airplane in Mexico during the Villa Expedition, March or April, 1916. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

Curtiss Wright Corp., Caldwell, New Jersey. View showing administration building and plant

Curtiss Wright Corp., Caldwell, New Jersey. View showing administratio...

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DeLesseps, Curtiss and Latham - Public domain portrait photograph

DeLesseps, Curtiss and Latham - Public domain portrait photograph

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

Crowd on field, around Curtiss and aeroplane, Mineola, L.I.

Crowd on field, around Curtiss and aeroplane, Mineola, L.I.

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Curtiss-Herring aeroplane, on ground

Curtiss-Herring aeroplane, on ground

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, aviator, 1910s-1920s, early 20th-century aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Curtiss flying boats & hydraeoplane

Curtiss flying boats & hydraeoplane

Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is availabl... More

G.M. Heckscher's Curtiss Flying Boat [60 m.p.h.]

G.M. Heckscher's Curtiss Flying Boat [60 m.p.h.]

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, aviator, 1910s-1920s, early 20th-century aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Porte & Halle i.e., Hallett - Public domain portrait photograph

Porte & Halle i.e., Hallett - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows aviators John Cyril Porte and George E. A. Hallett at the launch of the Curtiss Model H Flying Boat airplane "America" on June 22, 1914 in Hammondsport, New York. (Source: Flickr Commons projec... More

Early automobiles - Assembling "AMERICA"

Early automobiles - Assembling "AMERICA"

Photograph shows the launch of the Curtiss Model H Flying Boat airplane "America" on June 22, 1914 in Hammondsport, New York. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011 and Glenn Curtis: Pioneer of Flight, Cecil R. ... More

CURTISS AIRPLANE TESTS AND DEMONSTRATIONS; TWIN ENGINE BIPLANE, POTOMAC PARK

CURTISS AIRPLANE TESTS AND DEMONSTRATIONS; TWIN ENGINE BIPLANE, POTOMA...

Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pn... More

NATIONAL AERO COAST PATROL COMMN. CURTISS HYDROAEROPLANE OR FLYING BOAT EXHIBITED NEAR HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING. E.H. SMITH; REP. KAHN; REP. LIEB

NATIONAL AERO COAST PATROL COMMN. CURTISS HYDROAEROPLANE OR FLYING BOA...

Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pn... More

LANGLEY FIELD, VA. HANGERS: PLANES, LEFT TO RIGHT: CURTISS JN4D, AND KIRKHAM TRIPLANE

LANGLEY FIELD, VA. HANGERS: PLANES, LEFT TO RIGHT: CURTISS JN4D, AND K...

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NATIONAL AERO COAST PATROL COMMN.: CURTISS HYDROAEROPLANE OR FLYING BOAT EXHIBITED NEAR HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING. RIPLEY BOWMAN; FRANKENFIELD; PEARY; SMITH

NATIONAL AERO COAST PATROL COMMN.: CURTISS HYDROAEROPLANE OR FLYING BO...

Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pn... More

NATIONAL AERO COAST PATROL COMMN. CURTISS BIPLANE 2 ENGINES, WITH FLOATS, EXHIBITED AT S.O.B. SEN. BEN TILLMAN CLIMBING INTO PLANE; AUGUSTUS POST AT RIGHT

NATIONAL AERO COAST PATROL COMMN. CURTISS BIPLANE 2 ENGINES, WITH FLOA...

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OCKER, SARGENT, AVIATOR; REBER, SAMUEL, COL. U.S.A. SIGNAL CORPS; BLEAKLEY, ORRIN DUBBS, REP. FROM PENNSYLVANIA, 3/4/17 - 4/3/17. ELECTED, DID NOT QUALIFY. HIS PLANE; CURTISS AIRPLANE, BIPLANE TRACTOR BIPLANE CURTISS 6-X ENGINE; MARTIN AIRPLANE

OCKER, SARGENT, AVIATOR; REBER, SAMUEL, COL. U.S.A. SIGNAL CORPS; BLEA...

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AIR MAIL. INAUGURATION OF SERVICE, POLO FIELD. START OF 1ST CONTINUOUSLY SCHEDULED SERVICE. CURTISS JN-46-H PLANE

AIR MAIL. INAUGURATION OF SERVICE, POLO FIELD. START OF 1ST CONTINUOUS...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, aviator, 20th-century aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

NC-1 at Trepassey - Public domain portrait photograph

NC-1 at Trepassey - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows Navy-Curtiss Flying Boat NC-1 probably May 15 or 16, 1919 in Trepassey, Newfoundland, Canada on a leg of its trans-Atlantic journey. (Source:Flickr Commons, 2017 and similar Bain negative: LC-... More

NC-1 at Halifax - Public domain portrait photograph

NC-1 at Halifax - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows Navy-Curtiss Flying Boat NC-1 at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on a leg of its trans-Atlantic journey in 1919. (Source: Flickr Commons, 2017) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the n... More

Curtiss Arrow for Gordon Bennett Race

Curtiss Arrow for Gordon Bennett Race

Photograph shows airplane "The Wild Cat" whose design was sponsored by Seymour Ernest Jacobsen Cox (1884-1971) in order to enter the 1920 Gordon Bennett Cup Race. American aviator Roland Rohlfs (1892-1974) sta... More

Curtiss glider, 9/11/22 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Curtiss glider, 9/11/22 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, aviator, 1910s-1920s, early 20th-century aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Uncle Sam provides Assistant Secretary of War with Airplane Office. The latest type of Curtis airplane with a special desk in the rear cockpit has just been delivered to [...] Davison, Assistant Secretary of War for Aviation, [...] his many trips to Army posts around the country, Secretary [...] is shown in the plane ready for the first trip, 12/7/27

Uncle Sam provides Assistant Secretary of War with Airplane Office. Th...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

General Correspondence:  Curtiss, Glenn H., 1906-1915

General Correspondence: Curtiss, Glenn H., 1906-1915

The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers is a collection of documents related to the Wright brothers, two American inventors who are credited with building and flying the first successful powered airplane. The coll... More

Subject File:  Legal Cases--Wright Co. v. Curtiss Aeroplane Co.--Photographs, 1915, undated

Subject File: Legal Cases--Wright Co. v. Curtiss Aeroplane Co.--Photo...

Picryl description: Public domain page scan, legal document, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers is a collection of documents related to the Wright brothers, two ... More

Subject File:  Legal Cases--Wright Co. v. Curtiss Aeroplane Co.--Photographs, 1915, undated

Subject File: Legal Cases--Wright Co. v. Curtiss Aeroplane Co.--Photo...

Picryl description: Public domain page scan, legal document, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers is a collection of documents related to the Wright brothers, two ... More

Deck of "Pennsylvania" showing Curtiss biplane

Deck of "Pennsylvania" showing Curtiss biplane

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Doc Wildman in Curtiss Boat - Public domain portrait photograph

Doc Wildman in Curtiss Boat - Public domain portrait photograph

Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the George Grantha... More

CURTISS AIRPLANE. TESTS OF CURTISS PLANE FOR ARMY

CURTISS AIRPLANE. TESTS OF CURTISS PLANE FOR ARMY

Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pn... More

Glenn Curtiss; Lieuts; Park; Goodier; McLeary; Brereton, 12/4/12

Glenn Curtiss; Lieuts; Park; Goodier; McLeary; Brereton, 12/4/12

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AVIATION, ARMY, COLLEGE PARK. TESTS OF CURTISS PLANE FOR ARMY. SINGLE CONTROL

AVIATION, ARMY, COLLEGE PARK. TESTS OF CURTISS PLANE FOR ARMY. SINGLE ...

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NATIONAL AERO COAST PATROL COMMN. CURTISS HYDROAEROPLANE OR FLYING BOAT EXHIBITED NEAR HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING. REP. CHARLES LIEB; REP. J. KAHN; SEN. KERN; CAPT. TAYLOR; ADM. PEARY; E.H. SMITH

NATIONAL AERO COAST PATROL COMMN. CURTISS HYDROAEROPLANE OR FLYING BOA...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, aviator, 1910s-1920s, early 20th-century aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

"America", George Grantham Bain Collection

"America", George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows the launch of the Curtiss Model H Flying Boat airplane "America" on June 22, 1914 in Hammondsport, New York. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011 and Glenn Curtis: Pioneer of Flight, Cecil R. ... More

Body of "America" - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Body of "America" - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows the launch of the Curtiss Model H Flying Boat airplane "America" on June 22, 1914 in Hammondsport, New York. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011 and Glenn Curtis: Pioneer of Flight, Cecil R. ... More

Capt. E.C. Bass in British "Curtiss" Flying Boat

Capt. E.C. Bass in British "Curtiss" Flying Boat

Photograph shows aviator Ernest C. Bass in his Curtiss Model F Flying Boat with a modified engine. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011 and New York Times, Jan. 4, 1914)

CURTISS AIRPLANE. TESTS AND DEMONSTRATIONS; TWIN ENGINE BIPLANE, POTOMAC PARK

CURTISS AIRPLANE. TESTS AND DEMONSTRATIONS; TWIN ENGINE BIPLANE, POTOM...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a biplane aircraft, pilot, aviator, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

CURTISS AIRPLANE. CURTISS HYDROAEROPLANE, OR FLYING BOAT EXHIBITED AT HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING

CURTISS AIRPLANE. CURTISS HYDROAEROPLANE, OR FLYING BOAT EXHIBITED AT ...

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NATIONAL AERO COAST PATROL COMMN. CURTISS HYDROAEROPLANE OR FLYING BOAT EXHIBITED NEAR HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING

NATIONAL AERO COAST PATROL COMMN. CURTISS HYDROAEROPLANE OR FLYING BOA...

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CURTISS AIRPLANE. CURTISS TWIN ENGINE BIPLANE EXHIBITED AT SENATE OFFICE BUILDING

CURTISS AIRPLANE. CURTISS TWIN ENGINE BIPLANE EXHIBITED AT SENATE OFFI...

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NATIONAL AERO COAST PATROL COMMN. CURTISS BIPLANE 2 ENGINES, WITH FLOATS, EXHIBITED AT S.O.B.

NATIONAL AERO COAST PATROL COMMN. CURTISS BIPLANE 2 ENGINES, WITH FLOA...

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NATIONAL AERO COAST PATROL COMMN.: CURTISS HYDROAEROPLANE OR FLYING BOAT EXHIBITED NEAR HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING

NATIONAL AERO COAST PATROL COMMN.: CURTISS HYDROAEROPLANE OR FLYING BO...

Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pn... More

Patten & Lieut. Webb, George Grantham Bain Collection

Patten & Lieut. Webb, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Thomas Patten, New York City postmaster with pilot Torrey Webb who flew a Curtiss Jenny JN-4H airplane between New York City and Bustleton airfield near Philadelphia on May 15, 1918 as one of t... More

Mail 'plane, George Grantham Bain Collection

Mail 'plane, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows the Curtiss Jenny JN-4H airplane flown by pilot Torrey Webb between New York City and Bustleton airfield near Philadelphia on May 15, 1918 as one of the first regularly scheduled airmail flight... More

AIR MAIL. INAUGURATION OF SERVICE, POLO FIELD. START OF 1ST CONTINUOUSLY SCHEDULED SERVICE. CURTISS JN-46-H PLANE

AIR MAIL. INAUGURATION OF SERVICE, POLO FIELD. START OF 1ST CONTINUOUS...

Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pn... More

F5L bombing planes 6690 during World War I

F5L bombing planes 6690 during World War I

Photograph shows a silhouette view of the left wing, propeller and motor, and hull of a Felixstowe or Curtiss F5L airplane, with another seaplane on the water in the background. Forms part of: National Photo C... More

Tail of NC-3 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Tail of NC-3 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows Navy-Curtiss Flying Boat NC-3, probably in the Azores, Portugal after its first trans-Atlantic journey in 1919. (Source: Flickr Commons, 2017) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service ... More

NC-3 & PRAIRIE, George Grantham Bain Collection

NC-3 & PRAIRIE, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Navy-Curtiss Flying Boat NC-3 at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on a leg of its first trans-Atlantic journey in 1919. (Source: Flickr Commons, 2017) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on... More

NC-4, George Grantham Bain Collection

NC-4, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows the NC-4 Curtiss NC flying boat airplane which was designed by Glenn Curtiss, at Rockaway Beach, Long Island, New York State. The NC-4 was the first aircraft to fly across the Atlantic Ocean in... More

Curtiss Marine Flying trophy. Trophy in interior II

Curtiss Marine Flying trophy. Trophy in interior II

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President Coolidge presents flying trophy to U.S. Navy Aviator, President Coolidge presenting the Herbert Schiff Trophy to Lieut. Arthur Gavin, United States Navy at the White House today. The trophy is awarded to naval aviator attaining the greater number in the air without accident during the fiscal [...] goes to Lieut. Gavin this year because of his [...] 865 flying hours, which exceeds two previous [...] 282 and 26 hours, respectively. On the right, Secretary of the Navy, Curtis D. Wilbur

President Coolidge presents flying trophy to U.S. Navy Aviator, Presid...

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U.S. experts test weather device. Washington, D.C., Sept. 13. Scientists of the National Bureau of Standards today conducted a test of the new radiometeorograph, a device attached to parachute and balloon and sent into the skies to radio back signals giving the pressure, temperature and humidity of the upper air. Preparing the balloon for the ascension are Dr. L.V. Astin, (left) of the Bureau's Electrical Division, and Dr. L.F. Curtiss, head of the Radium Division. The balloon carries the instrument as high as 50,000 or 60,000 feet. 9 to 11 miles high. Today's test was conducted for the U.S. Weather Bureau. 91337

U.S. experts test weather device. Washington, D.C., Sept. 13. Scientis...

Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pn... More

Manpower. Negro aircraft propeller workers. American industry develops skilled manpower from many racial groups. In less than six months, Robert Martin, Negro propeller worker, has been promoted from unskilled employment to highly skilled work. Martin is here shown brazing copper wire in a long weld in a large Eastern airplane propeller factory. Curtiss-Wright Propeller Division. Caldwell, New Jersey

Manpower. Negro aircraft propeller workers. American industry develops...

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Subject File:  Legal Cases--Wright Co. v. Curtiss Aeroplane Co.--Affidavits: Zahm, Albert F., 1915

Subject File: Legal Cases--Wright Co. v. Curtiss Aeroplane Co.--Affid...

Picryl description: Public domain page scan, legal document, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers is a collection of documents related to the Wright brothers, two ... More

Subject File:  Legal Cases--Wright Co. v. Curtiss Aeroplane Co.--Photographs, 1915, undated

Subject File: Legal Cases--Wright Co. v. Curtiss Aeroplane Co.--Photo...

Picryl description: Public domain page scan, legal document, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers is a collection of documents related to the Wright brothers, two ... More

Ely, Aug. Post, Curtiss - Public domain portrait photograph

Ely, Aug. Post, Curtiss - Public domain portrait photograph

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Curtiss-Herring flying machine, on ground, Mineola, L.I

Curtiss-Herring flying machine, on ground, Mineola, L.I

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

Curtiss Flying Boats, George Grantham Bain Collection

Curtiss Flying Boats, George Grantham Bain Collection

Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the George Grantha... More

Curtiss flying boat making 60 miles an hour

Curtiss flying boat making 60 miles an hour

Photo probably shows the America, a "flying boat" produced by Glenn Curtiss, on the surface of Lake Keuka, New York State, July 12, 1914. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009)

PECK, PAUL. COMMERCIAL AVIATOR. IN CURTISS TYPE PLANE; COLLEGE PARK

PECK, PAUL. COMMERCIAL AVIATOR. IN CURTISS TYPE PLANE; COLLEGE PARK

Title and date from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.g... More

CURTISS AIRPLANE. McCURDY, J.A.D., AVIATOR

CURTISS AIRPLANE. McCURDY, J.A.D., AVIATOR

Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pn... More

KENNEDY, FRANKLIN. LT., U.S.A. AVIATOR. IN CURTISS DUAL CONTROL AIRPLANE, HEADLESS; COLLEGE PARK, MARYLAND

KENNEDY, FRANKLIN. LT., U.S.A. AVIATOR. IN CURTISS DUAL CONTROL AIRPLA...

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CURTISS AIRPLANE. TESTS OF CURTISS PLANE FOR ARMY. LINCOLN BEACHY

CURTISS AIRPLANE. TESTS OF CURTISS PLANE FOR ARMY. LINCOLN BEACHY

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BALLOONS. CAPT. THOMAS S. BALDWIN, N.A., WHO BUILT DIRIGIBLE BALLOON #1 EXCEPT THE ENGINE, WHICH WAS MADE BY CURTISS

BALLOONS. CAPT. THOMAS S. BALDWIN, N.A., WHO BUILT DIRIGIBLE BALLOON #...

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NATIONAL AERO COAST PATROL COMMN. CURTISS HYDROAEROPLANE OR FLYING BOAT EXHIBITED NEAR HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING. E. H. SMITH; REP. KAHN; REP. LIEB

NATIONAL AERO COAST PATROL COMMN. CURTISS HYDROAEROPLANE OR FLYING BOA...

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AIR MAIL. INAUGURATION OF SERVICE, POLO FIELD. OTHER CURTISS PLANES

AIR MAIL. INAUGURATION OF SERVICE, POLO FIELD. OTHER CURTISS PLANES

Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pn... More

Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Corp., Bristol fighter assembly

Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Corp., Bristol fighter assembly

Interior of shipping department of the plant in Buffalo., N.Y. No. 1119. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions.

AIR MAIL. INAUGURATION OF SERVICE, POLO FIELD. START OF 1ST CONTINUOUSLY SCHEDULED SERVICE. CURTISS JN-46-H PLANE

AIR MAIL. INAUGURATION OF SERVICE, POLO FIELD. START OF 1ST CONTINUOUS...

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Changing propellers -- NC-3 - Public domain portrait photograph

Changing propellers -- NC-3 - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows Navy-Curtiss Flying Boat NC-3 during its first trans-Atlantic journey in 1919. (Source: Flickr Commons, 2017) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: ... More

NC-4, George Grantham Bain Collection

NC-4, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows the NC-4 Curtiss NC flying boat airplane which was designed by Glenn Curtiss, at Rockaway Beach, Long Island, New York State. The NC-4 was the first aircraft to fly across the Atlantic Ocean in... More

NC-3 at Halifax - Public domain portrait photograph

NC-3 at Halifax - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows Navy-Curtiss Flying Boat NC-3 at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on a leg of the first trans-Atlantic journey in 1919. (Source: Flickr Commons, 2017) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on... More

Navy flyer takes 12-year seaplane on its first flight. After lying in storage at the Washington Navy Yard more than 12 years, an obsolete 1915 model Curtiss seaplane on its maiden flight today on the [...] by Commander H.C. Richardson, crack U.S. Navy [...] who is shown at the controls in this photograph. Commander Richardson is planning to put through various tests to compare its behavior to that craft of modern construction for the benefit of Naval officials. The United States Army War College shown in background

Navy flyer takes 12-year seaplane on its first flight. After lying in ...

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Curtiss Wright Corp., Caldwell, New Jersey. Entrance detail

Curtiss Wright Corp., Caldwell, New Jersey. Entrance detail

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Manpower. Negro aircraft propeller workers. A batch of propeller blades is rushed from one operation to another by one of the many Negro workers in a large Eastern airplane propeller plant. Curtiss-Wright Propeller Division. Caldwell, New Jersey

Manpower. Negro aircraft propeller workers. A batch of propeller blade...

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Citation winners. General George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army, is shown interviewing Edwin Curtiss Tracy (left), citation winner and Stanley Crawford certificate winner, both employed by the RCA Manufacturing Company, Camden, New Jersey following a luncheon tendered by Donald M. Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board (WPB), to the honor group

Citation winners. General George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff, U.S. Arm...

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