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This photograph was among those in our family collection. A group of post card photographs I attribute to my grandfather Frank Samuel Knoblock includes this image of an early monoplane. The design appears to be derived from a Bleriot monoplane. It appears that you could purchase a "knock off" Bleriot fuselage from the Queen Aeroplane Company in New York City. Frank Cessna, by all accounts, favored a monoplane design while many others in the period favored a bi-plane design. All of the images of Cessna's aircraft appear to follow this same design from early models to the slightly more modern aircraft of 1917 and onward.