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Orphan asylum boys picking currants

Breaker boys worked in the coal mines. Their main job was to separate chunks of coal by hand. As coal came down the conveyor belt, they would break up the coal into common sized pieces and also separate out any things like rocks, clay and soil. Boys…

Ben Epps stands with the Epps-Huff II, long thought to be Georgia’s first airplane.

A recruitment poster for the USAAS during World War I

U.S. pilots in action during WWI. Captain "Eddie" Rickenbacker, known as the U.S. "Ace of Aces", conducts a bombing run over German lines.

First successful flight of the Wright Flyer, by the Wright brothers.

The diary of American flying ace Zenos Ramsey Miller. It reads:

"200
Friday, July 19, 1918

The destruction of a Fokker biplane by Lt. Z. R. Miller was reported today. This occurred near St. Remy Oulchy, altitude 2500 meters. Awaiting…

Atlanta Journal article on the first flight of Ben Epps' "Epps Huff II" monoplane.

View of the interior of the Atlantic Steel Company mill in Atlanta, Georgia.

The cover of a newspaper describing the Atlantic Steel Company