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Calbraith Perry Rodgers' transcontinental flight...
Calbraith Perry Rodgers' transcontinental flight...
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November 06, 1911
THE EVENING TRIBUNE, San Diego, Nov. 6, 1911
*Aviator Calbraith Perry Rodgers
* 1st Transcontinental airplane flight ends
The front page has a nice banner headline: "ALEXANDER RUNS SECOND TO HARRIMAN" with subhead. Surprisingly this issue is in good condition being from the "wood pulp" era. Very hard to find issues that are not totally fragile from this era in paper.
Complete with 16 pages, irregular along the spine, small library stamp within the masthead, generally nice.
wikipedia notes: Calbraith Perry Rodgers (January 12, 1879 – April 3, 1912) was an American aviation pioneer. He made the first transcontinental airplane flight across the U.S. from September 17, 1911, to November 5, 1911, with dozens of stops, both intentional and accidental. The feat made him a national celebrity, but he was killed in a crash a few months later at an exhibition in California.
Category: The 20th Century
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