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John Smith wrote:

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Robert Clark wrote:

A coworker of mine found this photo in a box of junk he bought at a yard
sales.
Anyone have any ideas of what it might have been? or the hapless pilot?


Observation car and a dirigible, circa WWI.

No, that is the wreckage of an airplane. In the foreground is the tail
with the horizontal stabilizer to the left. I have no clue how that poor
man ended up where he did. It might be possible to get a rough idea of
the age of the photo by learning when that style of photo paper (with
the scalloped edges) came in to use.