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| title: | Plane crash on Dunn Meadow |
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| image number: | P0022444 |
| description: | This image scanned from page 113 of the 1912 Arbutus yearbook. The photograph accompanies a lengthy poem titled "The Ballad Of The Fizzle-Ship." After trying to avoid a previuosly-unseen barbed-wire fence, Horace Kearney crashed his plane on Dunn Meadow. The University Archives has a reference file on this incident in its reference files under "B&G - Dunn Meadow - Airplane Crash of 1911". On December 12, 1912 Kearney and a reporter by the name of Chester Lawrence were killed when Kearney's plane "Snookums" crashed into the Pacific Ocean. Page 83 of the 1912 Gothic yearbook of Bloomington High School has a printed drawing of the incident at Dunn Meadow (see image P0109025). |
| date taken: | 1911 October 11 |
| photographer studio: | Unknown |
| copyright owner: | Unknown |
| personal name: | Kearney, Horace |
| topic: | Airplanes |
| topic: | Accidents |
| city: | Bloomington |
| state: | Indiana |
| other place name: | Dunn Meadow |
| series: | Groups |
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