Mar 15, 2012 - Sale 2273

Sale 2273 - Lot 93

Price Realized: $ 180
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(AVIATION.) Photograph of Harry Atwood's biplane "Moth" while refueling during a record-setting journey. Albumen print, 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches, on original plain mount; mount is dampstained, long caption dated 15 August [1911] on verso. Venice Park [Atlantic City, NJ], [4 July 1911]
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Harry Nelson Atwood was an early aviator. This photograph was taken during his record-setting trip in the biplane "Moth" from Boston to Washington. The caption explains that "This is Atwood's flying machine in Venice Park. He came down for gasoline." Ten days later, he landed on the White House lawn and received a medal from President Taft.