Cabin Gallery

Beechcraft F-2-BH

United States Army Air Corps - Beechcraft F-2-BH. (The 14 F-2s were given the msn 340 to 353 and serial numbers 40-682 to 40-695) This variant was the first specialised high-altitude photographic reconnaissance type used operationally by the USAAC. The F-2 had two 450hp Pratt & Whitney R-985 -19 engines, two multiple-lens mapping cameras mounted in tandem in the cabin, and a piped oxygen system for the crew. A special device was installed in the entry door permitting side-view or oblique-angle photography. The first aircraft was delivered to the USAAC on 21 December 1939 and the last one in July 1940. Date: circa 1940

© The Peter Butt Aviation Collection / Mary Evans A The Peter Butt Aviation Collection / Mary Evans

Monument in memory of Uncle Tom - Rev. Josiah Henson

Monument erected in memory of abolitionist, minister and author Rev. Josiah Henson - born into Slavery in 1789 in Port Tobacco, Charles County, Maryland, he escaped to Upper Canada (now Ontario) in 1830, and founded a settlement and laborer's school for other fugitive slaves at Dawn, near Dresden, in Kent County, Upper Canada, of British Canada. Henson's autobiography, The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself (1849), is believed to have inspired the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). Date: 1913

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Celestial interior of James Talbots Fokker plane

An exceedingly luxurious cabin of a Super-Trimotor Fokker aeroplane owned by Mr James A. Talbot. Clearly visible is the celestial theme of the decor on the upholstered chairs, walls and roof. Date: 1929

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

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