Raynors HCA 2019-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/26/2019
Rare albumen cabinet card photograph of Samuel Franklin Cody. Pictures S.F. Cody with another man in horse drawn carriage. Several bystanders looking on as the pair are ready for travel. Fine condition.Samuel Franklin Cowdery (later known as Samuel Franklin Cody; (1867- 1913), was a Wild West showman and early pioneer of manned flight. He is most famous for his work on the large kites known as Cody War-Kites, that were used by the British in World War I as a smaller alternative to balloons for artillery spotting. He was also the first man to fly an aeroplane in Britain, on 16 October 1908. A flamboyant showman, he was often confused with Buffalo Bill Cody, whose surname he took when young.
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