Man on horseback at Grosse Pointe aviation meet
View of man on horseback at Grosse Pointe aviation meet. Stamped on back: "Spooner & Wells, Inc., photographers, 1231 Woodward Ave., Detroit, Mich., telephone North 1745." Handwritten on back: "Aircraft competitions--Grosse Pointe aviation meet, 1911." Label on file: "Regarding the Grosse Pointe file. The aviation event took place at the then Grosse Pointe Golf Club, now the site of the Grosse Pointe High School. The occasion was the result of Russell A. Alger's effort to bring the Wright airplane to Detroit. Alger was a founder of the Detroit Aviation Society and an investor in the Wright Airplane Co. The planes [sic] pilot, Frank R. Coffyn, took 41 high status passengers aloft during the period, June 18-20, 1911. Later Alger bought the plane and had Coffyn teach him to fly it."
- Creator:
- Spooner & Wells
- Resource ID:
- na003081
- Subject:
- Horsemen and horsewomen--Michigan--Grosse Pointe
- Horses--Michigan--Grosse Pointe
- Air shows--Michigan--Grosse Pointe
- Photographers--Michigan--Detroit
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- 1911-06
- Format:
- 1 photographic print ; 4.5 x 6.5 in.
- Department:
- National Automotive History Collection
- Collection:
- Lazarnick Collection
- Location:
- Aircraft competitions--Grosse Pointe aviation meet, 1911 #1
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.