The label on the back reads as follows:
"1. At the controls of the Navy's first aircraft, the A-1 Triad, Lt. T.G. Ellyson prepares to take Capt. W.I. Chambers, USN, aloft during flights at Hammondsport, N.Y., in 1911. The A-1 Triad was one of the first two aircraft ordered by the Navy and the only amphibious version. [75th Anniversary of Naval Aviation National Staff, Bldg 159E, WNY Annex, Wash. DC, 20374] [202-475-2739]"