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This photograph shows A.K.Longren standing beside one of his AK model airplanes while it is being refueled at Clay Center, Kansas.
Date: 1922
This photograph helps students see how rudimentary re-fueling aircraft often was in the early 1920s. In addition, the photo provides proof that Longren remained an active flier despite the demands that running a successful airplane manufacturing company place upon him.
KS: 7th: 4.6.A.: significance of the work of entrepreneurial Kansans in the aviation industry
Item Number: 213302
Call Number: TL500 Lon.A AK *7
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 213302
Business and Industry - Aviation - Production - Longren
Collections - Photograph - Longren, Albin K.
Curriculum - 7th Grade Standards - Kansas History Standards - 1880s to 1920s (Benchmark 4) - Aviation entrepreneurs (Indicator 6) - Albin Longren
Date - 1920s - 1922
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
People - Notable Kansans - Longren, Albin K.
Places - Cities and towns - Clay Center
Places - Counties - Clay
Thematic Time Period - Industrialization and the National Economy, 1870 - 1920
Transportation - Air Travel - Aeroplanes
Transportation - Air Travel - Companies - Longren
Type of Material - Photographs
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