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| Date: | 04 07 1933 |
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| Description: | In an obvious publicity stunt, a Northwest Airways pilot delivers the first case of post-Prohibition Atlas Beer to Madison distributor Ira Chambers. The sh... |
| Date: | 05 1912 |
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| Description: | The 1912 class at the Glenn Curtiss Aviation School on North Island, near San Diego. Milwaukee's John Kaminski (in white shirt and tie) is second from the ... |
| Date: | 05 25 1931 |
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| Description: | The Waukesha Flying Club and their jointly owned Waco 10. The members are (row 1, left to right) Charles Gittner, Joe Rombough, and Roy Winzenreid and (row... |
| Date: | 09 1936 |
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| Description: | Beryl Markham, a former Kenyan bush pilot, waves to the crowd as she arrives at Floyd Bennett Field in New York. She had just completed the first solo east... |
| Date: | 04 17 1928 |
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| Description: | Howard Morey posing in an airplane that advertised Pennco Oil, his distributorship of Waco airplanes, and his flying school. Two women sit in front of him.... |
| Date: | 08 09 1938 |
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| Description: | Douglas Corrigan examining a compass with General Evan Humphreys after Corrigan "mistakenly" flew from New York to Ireland. Corrigan claimed that he had re... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Publicist Harry Bruno; B.F. Mahoney, designer of "The Spirit of St. Louis"; an Earl Carroll chorus girl; Charles Lindbergh; and Bruno's partner, Richard Bl... |
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| Description: | The real flying nun, Sister Mary Aquinas Kinskey, arriving at Sheboygan County Airport with two Franciscan sisters in a Cherokee C airplane. Sister Mary Aq... |
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| Description: | The real flying nun, Sister Mary Aquinas Kinskey, O.S.F., in a B-52 simulator with Major Ralph M. Hanson. Sister Mary Aquinas was fulfilling her dream of f... |
| Date: | 09 23 1936 |
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| Description: | A glamour portrait of aviator Beryl Markham inscribed to her publicist Harry Bruno. Markham, a former Kenyan bush pilot, had recently completed (but just b... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | "She's Ready to Defend America," a portrait of Georgette Louise Meyer (aka Dickey Chapelle), as a member of the Women Flyers of America, an organization fo... |
| Date: | 06 17 1932 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Mary Wright (Mrs. H. Foster) Bain, who flew her own airplane from her home in Newark, N.J. to her University of Wisconsin reunion. She is posin... |
| Date: | 05 26 1932 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Morey Airplane Co. personnel, with five people. Standing left to right: Winston Smith, mechanic, Frank McCormick, pilot and shop super, A... |
| Date: | 04 17 1928 |
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| Description: | Group of four women and four men and an airplane pilot standing in and around two Oakland automobiles at the Pennco Field (Royal Airport). Taken for Associ... |
| Date: | 04 17 1928 |
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| Description: | "American Girl" movie group with pilot in front of airplane at the Pennco Field (Royal Airport). |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of women who are taking flying lessons. Several of the women are dressed in furs. |
| Date: | 05 17 1945 |
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| Description: | Mrs. F.V. Burcalow is shown with her two children, Vicki and Larry, with an airplane. Mrs. Burcalow is learning how to fly while her husband, an assistant ... |
| Date: | 05 17 1945 |
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| Description: | Martha Akin from Phoenix, Arizona, Audrey Waldschmidt, Bismarck, North Dakota, and Helen Harger, Pontiac, Michigan, are shown plotting a course for a fligh... |
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