Seaplane Pilot
Women air pilots -- United States
Air pilots
Pictured here is Captain Sanders, the pilot of the seaplane behiind him that Ruth Nichols and her hunting party, including her two brothers, used when going to and from Ontario, Canada for a moose hunting expedition in October 1929. Visible to the right is a large pile of the famous aviatrix, Nichols' and her friends' luggage.
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Ruth Nichols Photograph Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
October 1929
Heidi Fearing
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Photo No. 21
Ontario, Canada
Ruth Nichols' Hunting Lodgings
Women air pilots -- United States
Ruth Nichols stands at the door of her Bear Lake Camp cabin in which she stayed during her moose hunting trip to Ontario, Canada in October 1929. Beside her stands her brothers.
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Ruth Nichols Photograph Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
October 1929
Heidi Fearing
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Photo No. RN20
Ontario, Canada
Ruth Nichols with Hunting Buddies
Women air pilots -- United States
Early, record-breaking pilot Ruth Nichols stands garbed in hunting attire between two male hunting friends. Nichols had traveled to Canada in October 1929 to experience Moose Hunting season.
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Ruth Nichols Photograph Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
October 1929
Heidi Fearing
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Photo No. RN19
Ontario, Canada
Ruth Nichols Hunting Camp
Women air pilots -- United States
Pictured here is a log cabin reflecting in a lake. This scene was from the hunting camp at which famed aviatrix Ruth Nichols stayed during her hunting trip to Canada in 1929.
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Ruth Nichols Photograph Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
October 1929
Heidi Fearing
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Photo No. RN18
Ontario, Canada
Nichols About to Go Hunting
Women air pilots -- United States
Famous early pilot Ruth Nichols gathers with members of her hunting party outside of log cabins in Ontario, Canada. Nichols had gone out searching for moose in the month of October 1929. The handwritten caption on the back of the photograph reads, "Setting off for a 'trek' (not tump line)."
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Ruth Nichols Photograph Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
October 1929
Heidi Fearing
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Photo No. RN17
Ontario, Canada
Ruth Nichols with Moose Head
Women air pilots -- United States
While hunting in Ontario, Canada in October 1929, either the well-known pioneer female pilot, Ruth Nichols or one of her hunting party managed to take down a rather large moose. The reverse side of the photograph claims the moose head, which is being held between Nichols and either other individuals, to be 69 1/2 inches.
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Ruth Nichols Photograph Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
October 1929
Heidi Fearing
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Photo No. RN16
Ontario, Canada
Ruth Nichols by Seaplane
Women air pilots -- United States
While visiting Ontario, Canada in October 1929, record-breaking aviatrix Ruth Nichols stands with an unknown individual beside a seaplane.
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Ruth Nichols Photograph Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
October 1929
Heidi Fearing
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Photo No. RN15
Ontario, Canada
Ruth Nichols with Hunting Riffle
Women air pilots -- United States
This photograph of Ruth Nichols shows the famed aviatrix standing in hunting attire holding a hunting riffle. Nichols spent October 1929 hunting in Ontario, Canada.
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Ruth Nichols Photograph Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
October 1929
Heidi Fearing
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Photo No. RN14
Canada