With his good looks, bushy mustache and swagger, Glenn Curtis foretold Howard Hughes, setting speed records first with custom built motorcycles, then in some of the earliest airplanes. Two decades before Lindbergh flew to Paris, Curtiss won a fortune in prize money by swooping over America, Waldo Pepper style. He also got into a bitter rivalry with the Wright Brothers, who sued him for ingringing their airplane patent, keeping him the riches he'd earned until 1917. These 2 items recreate the Curtiss mystique: a rare 3 1/2 x 5 1/4" postcard with him on one of his record-setting V8 motorbikes, and a later, 3 x 5 1/2" newspaper photo of him with a NRMT signature in black pen -- one of the very few that can be found today of this legendary adventurer. Photo and postcard are EX, with some pencil marks on the reverse of the latter.