Flying the Flume at Crystal Palace 1904
French Mademoiselle Dutrien (le fleche humaine), the human arrow, performing at Crystal Palace, London. After riding down a curving track on her bicycle which falls some seventy feet (without a helmet!) an angle of over fifty degrees, utilises the great velocity thus gained by jumping a non-existent gap and spinning through the air of between thirty and forty feet, landing opposite side of where she began
Picture No
12907093
Media ID
46104449
Size
4882px x 7226px
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Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Photograph in The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News', 9 January 1904, page 805 and also in The Tatler', 13 January 1904, page 71
Date
1904
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