Ruth Nichols Wearing a Fur Coat for Setting an Altitude Record
Women air pilots -- United States
Ruth Nichols before or after setting an altitude record.
Photograph by H. A. Sohoenhals.
IWASM
IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
Heidi Fearing
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Original Photo No. 204
Ruth Nichols with Lady and Male Pilot
Women air pilots -- United States
Aviation pioneer and multiple record breaker Ruth Nichols is shown in civilian attire next to an elderly woman and a male pilot. The threesome are standing in front of a plane.
IWASM
IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
ca. 1919-1959
Heidi Fearing
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Original Photo No. 205
Ruth Nichols Atop a Plane
Women air pilots -- United States
An enthusiastic Ruth Nichols gives a big wave and smile while sitting on top of a plane's wing.
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IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
Heidi Fearing
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Original Photo No. 206
Ruth Nichols Talking to a Group of Men by Plane
Women air pilots -- United States
Lone female pilot Ruth Nichols stands next to a plane, surrounded by a group of men appearing to be pilots and mechanics.
Photograph by H. A. Schoenhals Photography.
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IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
Heidi Fearing
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Original Photo No. 207
Ruth Nichols After Breaking Record
Women air pilots -- United States
Air pilots -- United States.
Well-known aviatrix Ruth Nichols is congratulated after setting a new altitude record by fellow pilot Clarence Chamberlin and his wife, Wilda.
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IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
6 March 1931
Heidi Fearing
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Original Photo No. 208
Jersey City, New Jersey
Ruth Nichols Stands in Front of Plane
Women air pilots -- United States
Ruth Nichols is seen in her regular clothes standing in front of a large airplane.
Photo by Schoenhals Photography
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IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
Heidi Fearing
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Original Photo No. 210
Sea Plane
Air pilots -- United States.
Two military men and two mechanics are seen standing next to a sea plane.
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IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
1930s
Heidi Fearing
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Original Photo No. 211
Ruth Nichols and Two Men
Women air pilots -- United States
Record breaker Ruth Nichols sits in a plane cockpit with a Chamber of Commerce employee and pilot.
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IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
1927
Heidi Fearing
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Original Photo No. 212
Ruth Nichols Stands Casually
Women air pilots -- United States
Famous and record breaking aviatrix Ruth Nichols poses in a casual fashion in front of a plane.
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IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
1919-1959
Heidi Fearing
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Original Photo No. 213
Ruth Nichols and Her Mother
Women air pilots -- United States
Aviatrix Ruth Nichols standing with her mother next to a plane.
Photo Courtesy of Irving Rosenberg
IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
ca. 13 Dec 1930
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 327
Ruth Nichols World Altitude Flight
Women air pilots -- United States
Ruth Nichols standing in front of her plane, wearing a fur flight suit by Akita. This picture was taken before her world altitude record flight.
Photo Courtesy of Ruth Nichols
IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
ca. 1931
Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole
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Original Photo No. 656
Mechanics Work on Ruth Nichols' Plane
Women air pilots -- United States
The famous, record breaking aviatrix, Ruth Nichols sits in white on the rear wing of this airplane. The jumpsuit clad men appear to be working on the plane's mechanics.
IWASM
Ruth Nichols Photograph Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
ca. 1924-1960
Heidi Fearing
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Photo No. RN1
Ruth Nichols and a Crosley Radio Plane
Women air pilots -- United States
Aviation pioneer and multiple record breaker Ruth Nichols stands in front of a Crosley Radio Plane in a classic 1930s hat and long leather coat. Prowel Jr. and Lewis Crosley were inventors who were responsible for the first airplane radio broadcast in 1930.
IWASM
Ruth Nichols Photograph Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
ca. 1930s
Heidi Fearing
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Photo No. RN2
Ruth Nichols Before Transatlantic Flight Attempt
Women air pilots -- United States
Ruth Nichols sits high in the cockpit of a white Crosley Radio Plane before her attempt be the first woman to cross the Atlantic. She started on June 22, 1931 at the Floyd Bennet Airport in New York. Unfortunately her flight was short lived. Later that evening Nichols crashed at St. John Airport in Nebraska. While attempting to land for the night, the setting sun shone in Nichols' eyes and caused her to overshoot the runway. She suffered only minor injuries.
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Ruth Nichols Photograph Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
22 June 1931
Heidi Fearing
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Photo No. RN3
New York
Ruth Nichols About to Travel
Women air pilots -- United States
Ruth Nichols shows off of her impressive pile of luggage as she stands in front of a plane, presumably about to take off. On the back of the photograph is written "All of this luggage went into the poor fledgling."
IWASM
Ruth Nichols Photograph Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
ca. 1930s
Heidi Fearing
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Photo No. RN4
Ruth Nichols About to Travel Photograph Negative
Women air pilots -- United States
In this photograph negative Ruth Nichols shows off of her impressive pile of luggage as she stands in front of a plane, presumably about to take off. On the back of the photograph is written "All of this luggage went into the poor fledgling."
IWASM
Ruth Nichols Photograph Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
ca. 1930s
Heidi Fearing
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Photo No. RN5
Postcard of Unknown Man
Women air pilots -- United States
Found within the IWASM collection of Ruth Nichols Photograph Collection is this postcard of a mysterious unknown man in glasses named Ivan Mauni. Handwritten, cryptic messages written in Latin appear under the man's picture: Inventus, meaning found or discovered; Immortalis, meaning immortal; and Le Bedux et Ivall, most likely family names or locations. The back reads "Post Card," "Special by R. Torres Studios," "224 West 116th St., New York, 101 Lenox Ave."
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Ruth Nichols Photograph Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
Heidi Fearing
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Photo No. RN6
Nichols and Child in Front of Plane
Women air pilots -- United States
Famous female pilot Ruth Nichols poses for a photograph with her arm around a little girl. Behind them sits a Curtiss aircraft.
IWASM
Ruth Nichols Photograph Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
ca. 1930s
Heidi Fearing
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Photo No. RN7
Airplane in the Distance
Women air pilots -- United States
A plane, most likely one piloted by well-known aviatrix Ruth Nichols, is visible past a chain-link fence. Mechanics seem to be working on and around the aircraft.
IWASM
Ruth Nichols Photograph Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
Heidi Fearing
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Photo No. RN8
Nichols in Pilot's Uniform
Women air pilots -- United States
On 29 December 1931, successful aviatrix Nichols became the first woman to work for a commercial passenger airline as a pilot. She stands in her uniform here.
IWASM
Ruth Nichols Photograph Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
ca. 1931
Heidi Fearing
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Photo No. RN9
Postcard to Ruth Nichols
Women air pilots -- United States
This postcard to famed female pilot reads "Merry Christmas from Valtiughan Field, Fredericksburg and Elijaheaa M. Pillips." It was addressed to Ruth Nichols who was currently living on Grace Church St. Rye New York. The postmark reads December 18, 1939, Fredericksburg, PA.
IWASM
Ruth Nichols Photograph Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
December 18, 1939
Heidi Fearing
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Photo No. RN10
Fredericksburg, Pennsylvania
Ruth Nichols Fan Mail
Women air pilots -- United States
Air pilots -- United States
Found in the IWASM's Ruth Nichols Photograph Collection was a picture from apparently included in a piece of fan mail. The picture shows a man named Roland P. Prickett in a flight suit standing in front of a Kitty Hawk 1046 at the Springfield Airport in Massachusetts.
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Ruth Nichols Photograph Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
Heidi Fearing
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Photo No. RN11
Massachusetts
Sitting on Large Wheels
In this faded photograph a group of seven men and a woman sit on and stand by the wheels of a large, possibly commercial, plane.
IWASM
Ruth Nichols Photograph Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
ca. 1920s - 1930s
Heidi Fearing
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Photo No. RN12
Ruth Nichols and H.A. Starks
Women air pilots -- United States
This photograph, published in Ruth Nichols' 1957 autobiography Wings for Life, shows Nichols standing between two gentlemen. The information on the back of the photograph identifies one of the men as H.A. Starks; the other man is unidentified.
IWASM
Ruth Nichols Photograph Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
Nichols, Ruth. Wings for Life: The Life Story Of the First Lady Of The Air. Ed. Dorothy Roe Lewis. J.B. Lippincott Company: Philadelphia, 1957.
Heidi Fearing
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Photo No. RN13
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.
IWASM
Ruth Nichols Photograph Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum
October 1929
Heidi Fearing
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Photo No. RN14
Canada