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Helen Richey
Black and white photograph of Helen Richey, seated in buttoned blouse with her arms folded.
Marjorie Stinson
Black and white photograph of Marjorie Stinson wearing a leather jacket, flight helmet, and goggles. She is posing next to a plane and has her right hand on the side of the plane.
Marjorie Stinson
Black and white photograph of Marjorie Stinson wearing a dark-colored suit with hat and seated at the controls of a Wright biplane. Photo likely taken at Huffman Prairie in Dayton, OH.
Louise Thaden
Black and white photograph of Louise Thaden, wearing trousers, boots, leather jacket, scarf, and flight helmet and goggles. She is seated on the wing of a plane and has her right hand on one of the struts/spars.
Louise Thaden Wins the First Women’s Air Derby
Black and white photograph of Louise Thaden in her Travel Air plane arriving in Cleveland after her win at the Women's Transcontinental Air Derby. She is seated in the cockpit of the plane and is waving to the crowd. A crew of Sohio mechanics are…
Florence Lowe "Pancho" Barnes
Black and white photograph of Pancho Barnes wearing trousers, leather jacket, flight helmet and goggles, and standing in front of her Travelair R613K Mystery Ship.
Katherine Stinson
Black and white photograph of Katherine Stinson wearing full-length leather coat, lace-up boots, flight helmet and goggles. She is sitting on the side of her plane.
B-25 Transition Training
Black and white photograph of 20 WASP pilots (one row standing, one row crouching), in front of the B-25 T-551 plane.
Handwritten caption on the back of the photo reads "Mather Field, Sacramento, California 1944 B-25 Transition
Top row, left to…
Handwritten caption on the back of the photo reads "Mather Field, Sacramento, California 1944 B-25 Transition
Top row, left to…
Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) Class of 1943
Black and white photograph of six WASP pilots from class 43-W-7, all wearing coveralls, standing outside their barracks at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, TX.
Handwritten caption on the back of the photo reads
"The girls…
Wilhelmina M. Teerling is…
Handwritten caption on the back of the photo reads
"The girls…
Wilhelmina M. Teerling is…
Wilhelmina Teerling in a PT-19 Airplane
Black and white photograph of WASP pilot Wilhelmina Teerling seated in the cockpit of a PT-19 at Avenger Field. Teerling is visible from the neck up and wears flight helmet and goggles.
Wilhelmina Teerling's WASP Class Photo
Black and white portrait of WASP pilot Wilhelmina Teerling wearing her WASP leather jacket (featuring Fifinella) and scarf. She started her Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) training as a member of the class of 43-W-5 and graduated in the class…
Wilhelmina Teerling in a BT-13A Airplane
Black and white photograph of WASP pilot Wilhelmina Teerling seated in the cockpit of a BT-13A. She is wearing a white hat and a dark jacket.
Wilhelmina Teerling in a B-25
Sepia-toned photograph of WASP pilot Wilhelmina Teerling seated in the cockpit of the B-25 "Wah-Hoo-Wah", T-635. Teerling is in flight gear and is leaning out of the open cockpit window
Bryton and Bebe Barrow
Black and white photograph of Bryton Barrow (left) bent over, holding the tail of a model airplane and Bebe Barrow (right), holding a model airplane in her left hand and using her right hand to shade her eyes. She looks off to her right.
Evelyn de Seversky and Major Alex de Seversky
Sepia-toned photograph of Evelyn de Seversky, in plane cockpit and wearing flight helmet and goggles, with Major Alex de Seversky wearing double-breasted suit, flight helmet, and goggles standing next to the plane.
Russian born Major Alexander P.…
Russian born Major Alexander P.…
Lockheed Vega NC-106 Standard Aviation Oil Company Plane
Black and white photograph of the Standard Oil Co. of NJ Lockheed Vega NC-106-N plane. Side of the plane is painted like an eagle and reads "Stanavo"
AirMail Biplane
Black and white photograph of a single-engine biplane parked next to a United States Mail Air Mail truck. Both vehicles are parked outside of a building labeled "Wichita."
Katherine Stinson in Flight Suit
Black and white photograph of Katherine Stinson wearing double-breasted blazer and flight helmet. She stands next to a plane and has one hand on the propeller. Caption on the back reads "Katherine Stinson 4th license women pilot 9 July…
Neta Snook Southern
Black and white photograph of Neta Snook Southern wearing trousers, boots, and leather jacket standing in front of a Canuck plane.
Southern was the first woman in Iowa to receive her pilot's license, first student accepted at the Curtiss Flying…
Southern was the first woman in Iowa to receive her pilot's license, first student accepted at the Curtiss Flying…
1929 Women's Air Derby
Black and white photograph of a biplane in a field, with people milling about.
Contestants stopped in the middle of the first Women's Air Derby in Paul Cox Airfield in Terre Haute, Indiana. Nineteen women participated in the race which began in…
Contestants stopped in the middle of the first Women's Air Derby in Paul Cox Airfield in Terre Haute, Indiana. Nineteen women participated in the race which began in…
Ruth Elder and Vera Dawn Walker’s Planes at the 1929 Women’s Air Derby
Ruth Elder and Vera Dawn Walker’s planes at Paul Cox Airfield in Terre Haute, Indiana on August 25th during the 1929 Women's Air Derby. The foreground plane, No. 66, Swallow J-5, was flown by Ruth Elder. The other, No. 113, Curtiss Robin Challenger,…
Ruth Elder During the 1929 Women's Air Derby
Black and white photograph of Ruth Elder, wearing white short-sleeve coveralls, smiling at the camera with her hand on her hip. In the background are several biplanes and people in coveralls. Caption on the back of the photograph reads "Three cheers…
1929 Women’s Air Derby at the Paul Cox Airfield
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.
Ruth Elder and Thea Rasche at the 1929 Women's Air Derby
Thea Rasche (left) and Ruth Elder (right) standing at the Paul Cox Airfield in Terre Haute, Indiana on August 25, 1929. They are standing in front of Rasche’s Gypsy Moth #61. The first Women's Air Derby, also called the Powder Puff Derby, took place…
Amelia Earhart at the 1929 Women's Air Derby
Black and white photograph of a group of people standing around a biplane, with one wing of a second plane visible on the right side of the frame. Standing in the center is a man in a suit and a woman wearing a skirt and hat, huddled together looking…