Flying the Flume at Crystal Palace 1904
Latest sensation at the Crystal Palace, 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.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
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Picture No
14020211
Media ID
48990290
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by Russell in The Bystander', 13 January 1904, page 430
Date
1904
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