Robert Blackshear and dog on balcony overlooking the ocean at Hampton Bay, Long Island, N.Y. Photo is from the William Blackshear collection, which was donated to the Palestine Public Library.

St. Mary's, at Hampton Bay, Long Island, N.Y. Summer 1928. Photo is from the William Blackshear collection, which was donated to the Palestine Public Library.

Photograph of an unidentified man sitting in a fountain on the side of a stone patio and staircase. 1928-30 - Caption: "Page NYC 1928

William Blackshear standing in front of his rectory at the Church of St. Mary for the summer at Hampton Bays, Long Island, New York. Summer 1928. Photo is from the William Blackshear collection, which was donated to the Palestine Public Library.

(back of photo) Hampton Bay, L.I., 1928 - William Blackshear with the Penny lad. Pom Penny killed himself when away at school years later. Photo is from the William Blackshear collection, which was donated to the Palestine Public Library.

Photograph of a man making a bed in a small room on U.S.S. Texas. A note accompanying the photo describes the scene: "New York - Photo shows Felix Vergunia, steward of the U.S.S. Texas preparing the beds in the ship's quarters to be used by President Coolidge on his trip to Cuba to attend the Pan American Conference. The battleship is being made ready at the Navy yard here."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Two German aviators, Hermann Koehl and Frederick August Loose, hooped off form the tempelhofer airdrone at Berlin on march 26th on a mysterious flight for an unnamed destination."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The Photo shows the Plane "Bremen" in which the German flyers are making the flight."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Photo shows Commander Richard E. Byrd trying the wheel of the "Samson", the supply ship which Byrd will use on the South Pole expedition, while the ship is being prepared for trip in dock at Brooklyn, N. Y."

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The old Yankee Doodle, the Lockheed-Vega Monoplane with Wasp motor, which holds the record for coast-to-coast flights, carrying Capt. C. B. C. Collier, Pilot, and Harry Tucker, who was passenger when Art Goebel made his recording breaking flight across the continent, as passenger, hopped off on attempt to break the existing speed record for coast-to-coast flights, from Roosevelt Field, L. I., New York, the other day."