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[Billy] Robinson flying, Grinnell, Iowa

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W.C. "Billy" Robinson was an early aviator who set an American nonstop distance flight record in 1914. He became the second officially appointed air mail carrier in the U.S. He built his own airplane & invented a rotary airplane engine. Robinson was killed in 1916 at age 31 in a plane crash while attempting to set an altitude record.
Title [Billy] Robinson flying, Grinnell, Iowa
Supporting Host Grinnell College Libraries Special Collections
Index Date 1920
Date Captured 6/21/07
Type of Resource still image
Genre Photographs
Provenance Purchased from Ivan Sheets
reproduction info Scanned with HP Scanjet 4670 at 600 ppi. Archival master image available in tiff format.
Date Issued 1910-1920
Topic Poweshiek County (Iowa)
Topic Grinnell (Iowa)
Topic Airplanes
Topic Monoplanes
Topic Vehicles
Topic Robinson, W.C. (Billy), 1885-1916
Classification MS 107, http://libweb.grinnell.edu/archives/index.php?p=collections/findingaid&id=144
Related Item Ivan Sheets Collection
Identifier (local) ms107_griro003
Identifier (local) grinnell:14510
Access Condition Grinnell College Libraries does not own the copyright in these images and therefore cannot give or deny permission to publish or distribute any of them. It is the researcher's responsibility to determine and satisfy copyright or other use restrictions when publishing or distributing material from this collection. Any materials used must carry a credit line: Historic Iowa Postcard Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Grinnell College Libraries.
Identifier (hdl) http://hdl.handle.net/11084/14510
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