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Weldon B. Cooke Hydroplane Photographs

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Title	Weldon B. Cooke Hydroplane Photographs
Subject	Transportation Air pilots Flight Aeronautics Boats Hydroplanes
Place	Sandusky (Ohio) Erie County (Ohio)
Description	These two photographs show aviator Weldon B. Cooke in his flying boats, also called hydroplanes. Both photographs measure 5.5" x 3.5" (13.97 x 8.89 cm). Cooke began his career in Oakland, California but later traveled to Sandusky, Ohio to build airplanes. He was famous for building hydroplanes and flying boats, including the Irene, which quickly gained local fame. Cooke also was created a plane that could be easily torn down and reassembled. In the early twentieth century planes were typically shipped between cities that aeronautic exhibitions were given, since planes that could fly long distances were rare. In 1912, Cooke founded the Weldon B. Cooke Aeroplane Company in Sandusky, Ohio. Along with fellow aviator Harry Atwood, Cooke planned a passenger service between Put-in-Bay, Cedar Point, and Sandusky, Ohio in the summer of 1913. Cooke died in 1914 after fainting in an aircraft during an exhibition in Colorado.
Creator	Niebergall, Ernst
Date of Original	1913
Source	Audiovisual material S 1626 A, S 1626 B
Submitting Institution	Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center
Type	StillImage
Format	picture

Title	Om2722_2831889_001
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om2722_2831889_001.tif
Image Height	3205
Image Width	2021
File Size	944.174 KB

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