Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
2013.08.138
Accession#:
2013.08
Credit Line:
Donated by Mildred Goss Jones.
Object Name:
Print, Photographic
Title:
Converted "Jenny"
Year Range from:
1929
Year Range to:
1935
Description:
Black and white photograph of a bi—plane airplane docked in a harbor (a kind of float plane or sea plane). Text on the plane's tail reads: "359W". The aircraft has wheels as well as pontoon like structures around the wheels. The cockpit appears to be covered with a fabric cover. There is a boat docked behind the plane. The shoreline, harbor, and telephone lines in the background. Water in the foreground.
Photograph is of a converted "Jenny". The Curtiss JN—4 "Jenny" was a biplane built by the Curtiss Aeroplane Company of Hammondsport, New York, later the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company. They were originally used by the military and one that in its original state is not a float or sea plane. The Jenny in the photograph was converted into a sea plane with the addition of the pontoons around the wheels.
Verso has a stamped number "A63" in the lower proper right corner in blue ink.
Photograph is of a converted "Jenny". The Curtiss JN—4 "Jenny" was a biplane built by the Curtiss Aeroplane Company of Hammondsport, New York, later the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company. They were originally used by the military and one that in its original state is not a float or sea plane. The Jenny in the photograph was converted into a sea plane with the addition of the pontoons around the wheels.
Verso has a stamped number "A63" in the lower proper right corner in blue ink.
Notes:
Located in photo album (2013.08.011A). Attached to album page by corner tabs. White text on album page below photograph reads: "Converted Jenny".
The album belonged to William G. Brian Harland. He was a mechanic for Alaska—Washington Airways and Alaska Southern Airways. He was based out of Juneau.
More information on the Curtiss JN—4 aircraft, nicknamed the "Jenny": http://www.airventuremuseum.org/collection/aircraft/4Curtiss%20JN4—D%20Jenny.asp
The album belonged to William G. Brian Harland. He was a mechanic for Alaska—Washington Airways and Alaska Southern Airways. He was based out of Juneau.
More information on the Curtiss JN—4 aircraft, nicknamed the "Jenny": http://www.airventuremuseum.org/collection/aircraft/4Curtiss%20JN4—D%20Jenny.asp
People:
Harland, William G. Brian
Harland, Brian
Harland, Brian
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