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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Paul Black
ca. 1929
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 601
Terre Haute, Indiana
Ruth Elder and Thea Rasche at the 1929 Women's Air Derby
Women air pilots -- United States
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 between August 18 and August 27, 1929. The flight began in Santa Monica, California and ended in Cleveland, Ohio with some stops for rest and refueling in between.
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Paul Black
ca. 1929
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 600
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
Ruth Elder During the 1929 Women's Air Derby
Women air pilots -- United States
Ruth Elder standing on Paul Cox Air Field during the 1929 Women's Air Derby. Caption on the back of the photograph reads "Three cheers for Ruth!!! Always smiling."
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Paul Black
ca. 1929
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 598
Terre Haute, Indiana
Ruth Elder and Vera Dawn Walker’s Planes at the 1929 Women’s Air Derby
Women air pilots -- United States
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, was flown by Vera Dawn Walker.
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Paul Black
ca. 1929
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 597
Terre Haute, Indiana
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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Paul Black
ca. 1929
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 596
Terre Haute, Indiana
Neta Snook Southern
Women air pilots -- United States
Neta Snook Southern was an early American aviatrix. A pioneer in the field of female aviation, Southern was the first woman in Iowa to receive her pilot's license, first student accepted at the Curtiss Flying School in Virginia, and the first woman to run a commercial airfield. She is also remembered as Amelia Earhart's first instructor. One year after her death, she was inducted into the Iowa Aviation Hall of Fame. She is pictured standing in a flight suit in front of a Cannuck airplane on Kinner Air Field in Los Angeles, California.
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Mrs. W. I. Southern
ca. 1920
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 546
Kinner Air Field, Los Angeles, California
Katherine Stinson in Flight Suit
Women air pilots -- United States
Early aviatrix Katherine Stinson puts her hand on her plane shortly after receiving her pilot's license, the fourth woman in the United States to do so. After receiving her certificate, she began exhibition flying where she was known as the "Flying Schoolgirl." Stinson was the first woman to perform a loop at Circero Field in Chicago. In addition, she was the first woman to carry airmail for the United States. Stinson contracted tuberculosis in 1920 which forced her into retirement.
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Virginia Thomas
ca. 1912
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 536
AirMail Biplane
Airplanes
Airmail being loaded into a biplane at a Wichita Hangar in Kansas.
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Nat Ex Club
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 532
Wichita, Kansas
Lockheed Vega NC-106 Standard Aviation Oil Company Plane
Airplanes
A Lockheed Vega NC-106 Standard Aviation Oil Company plane featuring the image of an eagle associated with the brand.
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Nat Ex Club
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 531
Major and Mrs. Alex de Seversky
Air pilots -- United States
Air pilots -- Russia
Russian born Major Alexander P. de Seversky came to America, and he enjoyed a successful career as a pilot, inventor, aeronautical engineer, and author. Evelyn Olliphant de Seversky was a New Orleans socialite and pilot. The Major founded Seversky Aero Corporation in 1923, and his wife helped test-fly his planes. Unfortunately, a heart condition forced her to give up flying. Mrs. de Seversky died in 1967, and the Major died in 1974. The couple are pictured here with one of their planes.
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Nat Ex Club
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 530
Breyton and Bebe Barrow with Model Airplanes
Model airplanes
Breyton and Bebe Barrow with powered model airplanes during an air meet in Waynesboro, Virginia.
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Nat Ex Club
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 529
Waynesboro, Virginia.
Wilhelmina Teerling in a B-25 T-635 Airplane
Women air pilots -- United States
Wilhelmina Teerling , Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) Class of '43-7, sitting in the cockpit of the large B-25 T-635 plane called "Wah-Hoo-Wah."
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Wilhelmina Teerling
ca. 1944
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 510
Mather Field
Wilhelmina Teerling in a BT-13A Airplane
Women air pilots -- United States
Wilhelmina Teerling, a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), smiles back at the camera from the cockpit of a BT-13A.
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Wilhelmina Teerling
ca. 1944
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 509
Wilhelmina Teerling's Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) Class Photo
Women air pilots -- United States
Wilhelmina Teerling poses for her class photo. She started her Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) training as a member of the class of 43-W-5 and graduated in the class of 43-W-7.
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Wilhelmina Teerling
ca. 1943
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 508
Sweetwater, Texas
Wilhelmina Teerling in a PT-19 Airplane
Women air pilots -- United States
Class of 1943 Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) Wilhelmina Teerling sits in a PT-19 at Avenger Field, WASP training grounds.
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Wilhelmina Teerling
ca. 1943
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 507
Sweetwater, Texas
Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) Class of 1943
Women air pilots -- United States
The Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) were a group of female aviators that formed in September 1942. This pioneer group of women were employed to fly military aircraft during World War II under the direction of the United States Army Air Forces. Women from the WASP class of 43-W-7 gather for a photograph after a flight. They are (left to right) Nell Stevenson (Bright), Gertrude Tommy Tompkins (killed in service), Wilhelmina Teerling, Frances Thompson (Hirah), Jane Tallman, and Audrey Tardy.
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Wilhelmina Teerling
ca. 1944
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 506
Texas
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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ca. 1944
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 505
Katherine Stinson
Women air pilots -- United States
Early American aviatrix Katherine Stinson, one of the first women in the United States to get her pilot's license, posing on an airplane.
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Walter Kimotek
ca. 1917-1918
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 504
Florence Lowe "Pancho" Barnes
Women air pilots -- United States
Florence Lowe "Pancho" Barnes standing with her airplane, the Travel Air Mystery Ship.
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"Hollywood Pilot," a Paul Manta biography by Don Dwiggins.
ca. 1930
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 494
Los Angeles, CA
Louise Thaden Wins the First Women’s Air Derby
Women air pilots -- United States
Louise Thaden sitting in her Travel Air Wright Engine at the first Women’s Air Derby, which took place from August 18 to August 26, 1929. The nineteen women who participated flew from Santa Monica, California to Cleveland. Louise Thaden won with a flight time of 21 hours, 29 minutes, and 12 seconds.
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ca. August 26, 1929
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 492
Cleveland, Ohio
Louise Thaden
Women air pilots -- United States
Aviatrix Louise Thaden sitting on the wing of an airplane.
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Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 491
Marjorie Stinson
Women air pilots -- United States
Aviatrix Marjorie Stinson seated in a Wright airplane, probably at Huffman Prairie in Dayton.
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Lois Walker
ca. 1912
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 490
Marjorie Stinson
Women air pilots -- United States
Marjorie Stinson standing next to a plane.
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Lois Walker
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 489
Helen Richey
Women air pilots -- United States
Helen Richey sitting for a portrait in a uniform.
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Louise Thadden
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Original Photo No. 487