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- The Thomas Flyer Team aboard the SS Shawmut, Journeying to Japan, New York to Paris Race, 1908 - In early April, officials for the 1908 New York to Paris race decided that the remaining teams should ship their vehicles from the west coast of the United States to Asia. Instead of crossing the Bering Strait from Alaska into Russia, the race would begin again in Vladivostok. The now-trailing American team crossed the Pacific on the SS <em>Shawmut</em>.
- 1908
- Collections - Artifact
The Thomas Flyer Team aboard the SS Shawmut, Journeying to Japan, New York to Paris Race, 1908
In early April, officials for the 1908 New York to Paris race decided that the remaining teams should ship their vehicles from the west coast of the United States to Asia. Instead of crossing the Bering Strait from Alaska into Russia, the race would begin again in Vladivostok. The now-trailing American team crossed the Pacific on the SS Shawmut.
- Passengers Sleeping on Steamship Deck during Pacific Voyage, 1897 -
- October 01, 1897
- Collections - Artifact
Passengers Sleeping on Steamship Deck during Pacific Voyage, 1897
- P-38 Fighter Airplane, U.S. Army Air Forces, Pacific Theatre of World War II, circa 1943 - The twin-engine Lockheed P-38 fighter airplane was used by the U.S. Army Air Forces in the Pacific Theatre during World War II. Auxiliary fuel drop tanks, like the one seen here between the airplane's right engine and its fuselage, increased the P-38's range. After the war, land speed racers used surplus drop tanks to build streamlined bodies for their cars.
- circa 1943
- Collections - Artifact
P-38 Fighter Airplane, U.S. Army Air Forces, Pacific Theatre of World War II, circa 1943
The twin-engine Lockheed P-38 fighter airplane was used by the U.S. Army Air Forces in the Pacific Theatre during World War II. Auxiliary fuel drop tanks, like the one seen here between the airplane's right engine and its fuselage, increased the P-38's range. After the war, land speed racers used surplus drop tanks to build streamlined bodies for their cars.