July 18, 1911 A

July 18, 1911 A

Hotel Clarendon, Washington and Johnson Streets, Brooklyn, N.Y.

Notes: “Air ship,” like “photo play,” was not yet a compound word, let alone an “airplane” or a “movie.” “last Sunday” would have been July 16th, 1911. Emma mailed a post card showing bathers at Coney Island on the 16th. In all likelihood, she and Rhoda were watching the flight taking off from what would become Floyd Bennett Field, just east of the beach, or the Naval Air Station on the Rockaway Peninsula, located across the mouth of Jamaica Bay and directly opposite Coney Island. This would be the first of several visits to New York that Emma, her husband, Franklin, and (at least on this occasion) Rhoda, made. She took two subsequent trips in 1914.