This Week's Best Old Photos.
Flight; Civil War; Okies; NYSE; Santa Monica; Prague Spring
1. Flying to the White House, 1911.
Three months after learning to fly at the Wright Flying School near Dayton, Ohio, Harry Atwood piloted his Wright Model B biplane from Boston to Washington, covering the nearly 600 miles in 14 days. The final leg of his flight took him from College Park, MD, to a landing on the White House South Lawn, with Pres Taft wa…
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