About This Item

  • Call NumberPORT_0127
  • TitleCurtiss-Wright Condor
  • SummaryCaption: "Installation of pontoons 34 feet in length heave been completed on the seaplane to be used by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition. The work was done at Glen[n] Curtiss Airport, North Beach, under the supervision of Harold I. June, chief pilot for Admiral Byrd. The Curtiss-Wright Condor is the largest seaplane in the world. ... The Condor will operate on skiis during the operations at the South Pole. It will be flown from North Beach to Norfolk, Va. ... where it will be place aboard the supply ship Jacob Ruppert." Note: The Glenn H. Curtiss Airport was later renamed North Beach Airport, and later renamed, again, LaGuardia Airport.
  • Date1933
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteDate inscribed on verso: Oct. 9/33. Retouched. Stamped on verso: "Eagle photo." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn daily eagle
  • SubjectByrd, Richard Evelyn, 1888-1957 ; Seaplanes -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceOther place
  • LocationAntarctica
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.
  • FolderFolder: Portraits: Byrd, Richard E. Admiral: Antarctic Expedition: 1933-1935: I