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Claude Graham-White lands near White House

In October 1910, Claude Grahame-White won the Gordon Bennett speed race at the Belmont airs meet. The next month, he flew to Washington, D.C. and landed on a street next to the White House.

Credits - © 2002 National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution (SI Neg. 97-17120)