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Aviation
Pioneering Pilots, 1900-1940
Pioneering Pilots, 1900-1940

Pioneering Pilots, 1900-1940

Meet the pilots whose accomplishments propelled aviation forward in the early twentieth century, from trailblazers like Charles and Wilbur Wright and Katherine Stinson, to record-breakers like Roscoe Turner and Wiley Post, to activists like Dale S. White, Jr., who flew to protest racial discrimination in flight training.

  • Report of airplane crash and Wright Brothers’ intentions for future test flights

    Department of Commerce. Weather Bureau. (6/30/1940 - 7/13/1965)

    Report describing the airplane crash on May 14th and an insight to the Wright Brothers' intentions to return to Kill Devil Hill in August, 1908 to conduct further test flights.

    View Full Item  in National Archives at Atlanta
  • Photograph of aviator Ruth Bancroft Law on an apparatus near a plane

    Photograph of Ruth Bancroft Law. She wears a hat, a sweater, pants, and gloves and is sitting on the pilot’s seat of her Curtiss Headless pusher aeroplane which has been modified with Wright type cont…

    View Full Item  in The University of Texas at Dallas
  • Women pilots of the first All-Woman Transcontinental Air Race at Parks Airport during a stop-over

    Unknown creator, St. Louis University

    Women pilots of the first Women's Transcontinental Air Race gather for photos at Parks Airport while waiting for the fog to lift during a stop-over. Identities are (left to right): #1 Mary Elizabeth v…

    View Full Item  in Saint Louis University
  • Publication about Charles Lindbergh’s 1927 flight from New York to Paris, prepared by the U.S. State Department

    United States. Dept. of State

    On cover: The flight of Captain Charles A. Lindbergh from New York to Paris. May 20-21, 1927. Presented by the secretary of state, Frank B. Kellogg, June 11, 1927, to Captain Lindbergh in commemoratio…

    View Full Item  in University of California
  • Charles Lindbergh and plane at Pennco Field, Madison, Wisconsin, 1928

    Lindbergh standing by his plane at Pennco Field, Madison during his visit to receive an honorary degree.

    View Full Item  in University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
  • Amelia Earhart, the second person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, 1928

    Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967

    Title and date from information provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve.

    View Full Item  in Boston Public Library
  • Amelia Earhart arrives at East Boston Airport, July 1928

    Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967

    Title and date from information provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve.

    View Full Item  in Boston Public Library
  • Cigarette advertisement featuring Amelia Earhart

    American Tobacco Co

    B+W pen and ink framed drawing of Amelia Earhart in aviator hat with signed testimonial on plaque underneath. Cigarette

    View Full Item  in UC San Francisco, Library, Industry Documents Library
  • Lockheed Vega airplane owned by Amelia Earhart, 1930

    Karvinen, Cliff

    Lockheed Vega formerly owned by Amelia Earhart. (1931-37) [Photo taken by Cliff Karvinen. compliments of the Fred Roos Aviation Photo Collection.]

    View Full Item  in Saint Louis University
  • Amelia Earhart being interviewed by reporters, July 1932

    Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967

    Title and date from information provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve.

    View Full Item  in Boston Public Library
  • The Fun of It: Random Records of My Own Flying and of Women in Aviation by Amelia Earhart, 1932

    Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937

    "Aviation books by women". : [1] p. at end. A first edition copy containing a tiny phonograph record in an envelope mounted on back cover, on which is recorded the speech of Miss Earhart made over a t…

    View Full Item  in University of California
  • Photograph of pilot Wiley Post (left), the first pilot to fly solo around the world

    Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967

    Title and date from information provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve.

    View Full Item  in Boston Public Library
  • Clipping promoting Wiley Post’s 1933 round-the-world flight in a Sperry Automatic Pilot

    Image of Wiley Post and his aircraft, who made the first round-the-world flight using a Sperry Automatic Pilot control

    View Full Item  in Garden City Public Library
  • Roscoe Turner standing with his airplane, the Gilmore Lion, circa 1930

    Haase, Joseph (Joseph Malta Fredrick), 1893?-1959

    View Full Item  in San Diego History Center (formerly San Diego Historical Society)
  • Studio portrait of Howard Hughes, 1938

    Blackington, Alton H

    Copy image: "Profile of the 32 year old aviator who piloted a silvery monoplane around the world in less than 4 days. Picture was made as Hughes was receiving New York's official welcome."

    View Full Item  in Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
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