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Photograph of a Blackburn Bluebird aircraft (fuselage designation G-ABDS), circa 1930s. Pilot Mildred Bruce is seated in the cockpit. Inscription: "Mrs. Bruce [written backwards on negative]." Inscription on envelope: "Mrs. Bruce."

Photograph of Ruth Law piloting her Curtiss Model D Headless aircraft, Hammondsport, New York, circa 1910s. Inscription: "Ruth Law, Hammondsport, N.Y., (Pioneer Days)." Caption on envelope: "Ruth Law in flight."

Photograph of crowd gathered around Ruth Law (seated at controls) and her Curtiss Model D Headless aircraft, circa 1900s-1910s. Caption on envelope: "Ruth Law in A/C / 3/4 front above ground."

Photograph of Ruth Law seated at the controls of a Curtiss Model D aircraft, circa 1910s. Typed caption on verso: "Ruth Law, the daring woman flyer."

Composite photograph of parachutist Katharina Paulus and an unidentified man, possibly her husband Hermann Lattemann, in a balloon, circa 1890s.

Photographic group portrait of women aviators with an unidentified aircraft, circa 1920s-1930s.

Photographic group portrait of women aviators and a young child with an unidentified aircraft, circa 1920s-1930s.

Photographic group portrait of four servicewomen (likely women aviators), three women in civilian clothes, and man with an unidentified aircraft, circa 1930s. Pancho Barnes is third from the left.

Photographic portraits of aviator Beryl Markham, circa 1920s-1930s.

Framed etched mirror given to Moya Olsen Lear by the women of Lear Fan, Christmas 1984. The front of mirror depicts etched rose with text. On the verso is an inscription and 20 signatures.Etched text: "Moya Lear / A heart filled with love always has…