Knabenshue, Roy, -1960
Biographical Note: Roy Knabenshue
Augustus Roy Knabenshue was an early balloonist and aviator.
Knabenshue was born in 1875 in Lancaster, Ohio. In 1904, during the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, he piloted Thomas Scott Baldwin's California Arrow dirigible to 2,000 feet and returned to the takeoff point. Then, in 1905, he was the first to make a dirigible flight over New York City in 1905 in the Toldedo II. In 1913 he built the first passenger dirigible in America: White City.
As public interest grew in airplanes, he began working for the Wright Brothers as the manager of their exhibition team. He later worked for the National Park Service. He died in California in 1960.
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Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Goodman L. Goodmanson Los Angeles International Air Meet Photograph Album
Goodman L. Goodmanson (1886-1924) worked as a photographer for the Los Angeles Examiner during the 1910s. The collection is comprised of a photograph album containing sixty-three (63) black-and-white photographs depicting scenes from the Los Angeles International Air Meet of 1910 and a handwritten notecard presenting the album as a gift.
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