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World War I era airplane landing gear lined up in a hangar.
Interior view of restaurant in Clarksburg.  Tables on the right side and bar on the left.
Armistice parade, High Street and Willey Street in Morgantown, West Virginia. 'Jacques in center.'
Portrait of Jarvis Offutt and Lt. Louis Bennett.  At left is Jarvis Jenness Offutt of the U.S. Air Sevice, who was temporarily attached to Number 56 Aero Squadron of the R.A.F. He was killed in an accident in France, August 13, 1918.  He was from Nebraska and a classmate of Bennett at Yale.  This photograph was found in Bennett's Royal Air Force wallet.
Preparing to start aircraft #1 Curtiss JN-4 and "grass cutter" training plane. Plane #1 was destroyed in a crash on August 4, 1917.  In this crash Cadet C.B. Lambert (of Welch, West Virginia) was killed, and Lieutenant William Frey was injured.  (See newspaper Wheeling Register, August 4, 1917.)  Each ground crewman in the picture is about to "turn over the prop" in order to start the engines of the airplanes.
Pictured: Lynn and Fany Conrad, Mary Hendrick, Almeda Simmons, Delia Roberson, Charley Blewitt, Roy Simmons, Clara Ruddle, Zola Simmons, Will Cunningham, Leta Ruddle, Howard Cunningham, Linda Byrd, Don Byrd, Stanley and Bessie Bowers, Ernest and __ Ruddle, __ and Jessie Ruddle.
Candid portrait of Lt. Louis Bennett in uniform posing with a small child on a sled.
Group portrait of workers in front of Acme Limestone Company Plant, Ft. Spring, W. Va.
Officers of the West Virginia Flying Corps, including (left to right) Lieutenant Thomas Kent, Captain Louis Bennett, Jr., and Lieutenant William Frey.  They are standing in front of a Curtiss JN or "Jenny" aircraft.  This photograph appeared with an article regarding the W. Va. Flying Corps in the July 29, 1917 issue of the Wheeling Sunday News on page eight of part iii.