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Ruth Nichols with Hunting Buddies
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.
Ruth Nichols Hunting Camp
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.
Nichols About to Go Hunting
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,…
Ruth Nichols with Moose Head
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…
Ruth Nichols by Seaplane
While visiting Ontario, Canada in October 1929, record-breaking aviatrix Ruth Nichols stands with an unknown individual beside a seaplane.
Ruth Nichols with Hunting Riffle
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.
Ruth Nichols and H.A. Starks
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.
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.
Ruth Nichols Fan Mail
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…
Postcard to Ruth Nichols
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,…
Nichols in Pilot's Uniform
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.
Airplane in the Distance
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.
Nichols and Child in Front of Plane
Famous female pilot Ruth Nichols poses for a photograph with her arm around a little girl. Behind them sits a Curtiss aircraft.
Postcard of Unknown Man
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…
Ruth Nichols About to Travel Photograph Negative
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."
Ruth Nichols About to Travel
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."
Ruth Nichols Before Transatlantic Flight Attempt
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…
Ruth Nichols and a Crosley Radio Plane
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…
Mechanics Work on Ruth Nichols' Plane
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.
Jackie Cochran in T-38
Jacqueline "Jackie" Cochran standing in the cockpit of a T-38 plane.
Elisabeth Borelli
Black and white photograph of Elisabeth Borelli wearing a dark flight suit and holding a helmet underneath her right arm. Behind her is a plane. The photo is inscribed in ink, "My best wishes to American pilots Elisabeth Borelli 1978"
Anna-Marie Peltier
'Black and white photograph of Anna-Marie Peltier wearing dark trousers and three-quarter jacket. She stands with her arms crossed and wears sunglasses. Behind her is a plane and snowy mountains.
Peltier was an F-27 captain for the Air Intern in…
Peltier was an F-27 captain for the Air Intern in…
Marcelle Choisnet-Gohard
French pilot Marcelle Choisnet-Gohard in a flight suit getting into a small plane. She held international records for gliding. A paper attached to the bottom of the picture has a description typed in French.
Notable Individuals in Flight featuring Blanche Stuart Scott
A compilation of nine photographs of notable individuals in flight accompanying an advertisement for Beechcraft planes, featuring a story about early female pilot Blanche Stuart Scott and her flight in a Beechcraft model. These clippings come from an…
Ruth Nichols Before Her World Altitude Flight
'Sepia-toned photograph of Ruth Nichols wearing full winter flight suit, standing in front of her single-engine plane named Akita with her hand outstretched in a wave. Taken before her world altitude record flight.