Nichols About to Go Hunting

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)."

IWASM

Ruth Nichols Photograph Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum

October 1929

Heidi Fearing

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Photo No. RN17

Ontario, Canada