Choose PDF type:
| Picture No | 12907093 |
| Date | 1904 |
| Description | 'Flying the Flume' at Crystal Palace 1904 |
| Details |
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.
|
| Source | Photograph in 'The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News', 9 January 1904, page 805 and also in 'The Tatler', 13 January 1904, page 71 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
| Restrictions |
|
|
Thank you for visiting our website. If you are interested in licensing this image please email us at pictures@maryevans.com or telephone us on +44(0)20 8318 0034. If you are already registered to use this website, you can log in here. |