1929 Women's Air Derby
Women air pilots -- United States
Contestants stopped in the middle of the first Women's Air Derby, what was once called the Powder Puff Derby, in Paul Cox Airfield in Terre Haute, Indiana. Nineteen women participated in the race which began in Santa Monica, California and ended in Cleveland, Ohio
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IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
Paul Black
ca. 1929
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 596
Terre Haute, Indiana
1929 Women’s Air Derby at the Paul Cox Airfield
Women air pilots -- United States
Three planes that flew in the 1929 Women's Air Derby at the Paul Cox Air Field in Terre Haute, Indiana. The race began in Santa Monica, California on August 18 and ended in Cleveland, Ohio on August 26.
Photo Courtesy of Paul Black
IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
ca. 1929
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 599
Terre Haute, Indiana
1966 Powder Puff Derby Contestants
Women air pilots -- United States
The contestants of the 1966 Powder Puff Derby posing together on stage at a Jack Tar Hotel in Clearwater, Florida. The derby began in Seattle, Washington and ended in Clearwater, Florida, a total of 2875 miles. The contestants flew a Piper Cherokee airplane and the winners were Bernice Steadman and Mary E Clark.
Photo Courtesy of AWTAR
IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
ca. 1966
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 354
Florida
Abigail Davis
Women air pilots -- United States
Second Officer Abigail Davis was a pilot for the Boeing 727. She was the first woman to be hired as a pilot by Northwest Orient Airlines.
Original Source Unknown
IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 344
AirMail Biplane
Airplanes
Airmail being loaded into a biplane at a Wichita Hangar in Kansas.
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IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
Nat Ex Club
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 532
Wichita, Kansas
Alys McKey Bryant
Women air pilots -- United States
Alys McKey Bryant, the first woman to fly in Canada, posing for a photo in her flight gear.
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Original source unknown
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 433
Alys McKey Bryant
Women air pilots -- United States
Alys McKey Bryant standing in front of a Curtiss biplane on July 31, 1913 around 3 P.M. in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. This photo was presumably taken shortly after she became the first woman to fly in Canada.
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IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
July 31, 1913
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 625
Vancouver, British Columbia
Amelia Earhart at the 1929 Women's Air Derby
Women air pilots -- United States
Women's Air Derby contestant's planes sit at the Paul Cox Airport in Terre Haute, Indiana on August 25, 1929. A year before entering the contest, famed aviatrix Amelia Earhart was credited as the first woman to fly across the Atlantic. Earhart worked diligently as an advocate for female pilots.
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IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
Paul Black
ca. 1929
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 601
Terre Haute, Indiana
Anesia Machado's First Pilot License
Women air pilots -- Brazil.
Shown here is Anesia Machado's first pilot license that she acquired in Brazil in 1922. She later also obtained a United States pilot license in 1943. Caption on the back of this photograph:
My first license
#77 FAI
April 9, 1922
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IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
9 April 1922
Heidi Fearing
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Original Photo No. 85
Brazil
Ann Kenyon
Women air pilots -- United States
Ann Kenyon is shown in her Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) uniform.
Original Source Unknown
IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
ca. 1944
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 290
Ann Kenyon
Women air pilots -- United States
Military
Ann Kenyon, member of the Women Airforce Services Pilot (WASP), in uniform.
Original Source Unknwon
IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
ca. 1944
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 291
Ann Kenyon
Women air pilots -- United States
Military
WASP
Ann Keynon wearing a Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) uniform.
Original Source Unknown
IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
ca. 1944
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 296
Ann Kenyon at a Military Camp
Women air pilots -- United States
Military
Ann Kenyon poses for a picture in her Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) flight gear.
Original Source Unknown
IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
ca. 1942
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 288
Ann Kenyon in a Flight Jacket
Women air pilots -- United States
Ann Kenyon wearing a leather flight jacket.
Original Source Unknown
IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
ca. 1942
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 292
Ann Kenyon in a Military Cafeteria
Women air pilots -- United States
Military
Ann Kenyon, a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), is seen talking to her commanding officer in a military cafeteria at Camp Hood, Texas.
Original Source Unknown
IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
ca. 1944
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 294
Camp Hood, Texas
Ann Kenyon in Airplane Cockpit
Women air pilots -- United States
Aviatrix Ann Kenyon and instructor in training plane.
Original Source Unknown
IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
ca. 1944
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 297
Ann Kenyon on an Airplane Wing
Women air pilots -- United States
Ann Kenyon, a Women Airforce Service Pilot (WASP), kneels on an airplane wing.
Original Source Unknown
IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
ca. 1944
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 295
Anna-Marie Peltier
Women air pilots -- France
French pilot Anna-Marie Peltier, pictured here with her arms crossed next to a plane, was a F-27 captain for the Air Intern in France. Attached to the photograph is a typed description in French.
Original Source Unknown
IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
ca. January 1978
Heidi Fearing/ Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 81
France
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Air pilots -- United States
Women air pilots -- United States
Anne Morrow Lindbergh climbing into the cockpit of a plane. She was a pilot and the wife of the famous aviator Charles A. Lindbergh.
Photo Courtesy of Irving Rosenberg
IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
ca. 26 Aug 1938
Heidi Fearing/ Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 325
Aviatrices Honored by President John F. Kennedy
A group of aviatrices stand by President Kennedy at the White House for the Amelia Earhart First Day Cover Presentation. From left to right: President John F. Kennedy, Louise Smith, Blanche Noyes, Virginia Thompson, Alice Hammond, Marion Andrews, and Fay Wells.
Original Source Unknown
IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
ca. 1960s
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 223
Washington, D.C.
B-25 Transition Training
Women air pilots -- United States
In 1944 at Mather Field women gather for B-25 Transition Training. In the top row are Winifred Wood, Ana Morgan, Alaire Bennett, Katherine Joy Merratt, Pat Seares, Carolyn Clayton, Captain "Wimpy" Wimberly, Ellie Bryant, Kaddy Laudry, Aleta Grill, Anne Dessert, and Lillian Loiraine. In the front row are Tommy Thompson, Dorothy Avery, Doris Le Fever, Sammy Chapin, Caro Bayley, "Mickey" Nell Stevenson, Wilhmma Teerling, and Betty Clark.
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IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
ca. 1944
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 505
Baroness Raymonde de Laroche
Women air pilots -- France
French aviatrix Baroness Raymonde de Laroche sitting at the controls of a pusher biplane. She was the first woman to ever receive a pilot's license.
Photo Courtesy of Mr. Walter Kimotek
IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
ca. 1909-1919
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 654
France
Becky Center
Women air pilots -- United States
Shown here is avatrix Becky Center of Dayton, Ohio.
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Heidi Fearing
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Original Photo No. 112
Beechcraft Airplanes, the Spanish Fleet
Women air pilots -- United States
17 Beechcraft airplanes with Spanish N-numbers sit outside a Beechcraft factory in preparation for delivery to Spain.
Photo Courtesy of Louise Sacchi
IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
ca. 1971
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 653
Bessie Coleman in Uniform
Women air pilots -- United States
Bessie Coleman in a military uniform stands in front of an airplane's front rudder. Coleman was the first African American female pilot and first African American to hold an international pilot license.
Photo supplied by Howard Blanning.
IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
ca. 1920s
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 332