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This photograph shows a Laird Limousine that was converted from a two-engine airplane to a single-engine airplane. The pilot of the limousine is Walter H. Beech, who later went on to work with the Travel Air Company and the Curtiss-Wright Aviation Company before founding the Beech Aircraft Company along with his wife Olive.
Date: 1921
This photo can be used in conjunction with other material on either Walter Beech or Emil Laird to help students appreciate the many, and varied, aviation industry related accomplishments of both men.
KS: 7th: 4.6.A.: significance of the work of entrepreneurial Kansans in the aviation industry
Item Number: 213359
Call Number: TL.500 Lai.A Lim *2
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 213359
Business and Industry - Aviation - Production - Laird
Collections - Photograph
Curriculum - 7th Grade Standards - Kansas History Standards - 1880s to 1920s (Benchmark 4) - Aviation entrepreneurs (Indicator 6) - Emil M. Laird
Curriculum - 7th Grade Standards - Kansas History Standards - 1880s to 1920s (Benchmark 4) - Aviation entrepreneurs (Indicator 6) - Walter and Olive Beech
Date - 1920s - 1921
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
People - Notable Kansans - Beech, Walter Herschel, 1891-1950
People - Notable Kansans - Laird, Emil Matthew
Thematic Time Period - Industrialization and the National Economy, 1870 - 1920
Transportation - Air Travel - Aeroplanes
Transportation - Air Travel - Companies - Laird
Type of Material - Photographs
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