This postcard shows Henry Laurens Call's airship in 1908 outside its hanger in Girard, Kansas.
Date: 1908
This postcard helps students appreciate the variety of airplane designs that existed as the American aviation industry was just beginning.
KS: 7th: 4.6.A.: significance of the work of entrepreneurial Kansans in the aviation industry
Item Number: 213329
Call Number: TL.500 CAL.A*1-5
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 213329
Business and Industry - Aviation - Research and development
Collections - Photograph
Curriculum - 7th Grade Standards - Kansas History Standards - 1880s to 1920s (Benchmark 4) - Aviation entrepreneurs (Indicator 6)
Date - 1900s - 1908
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Postcard
People - Notable Kansans - Call, Henry Laurens, 1867-1917
Places - Cities and towns - Girard
Places - Counties - Crawford
Thematic Time Period - Industrialization and the National Economy, 1870-1920
Transportation - Air Travel
Type of Material - Postcards
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