Photograph of pilot Walter Brookins and passenger Mabel Van Buren in an unidentified aircraft, Griffith Park, Los Angeles, California, 1915.Inscription on verso: "Mable [Mabel] Van Buren / Walter Brookins / Flying at Griffith Park L.A. /…
Photograph of Walter Brookins (right) and another man at the controls of an unidentified aircraft, California, circa 1900s-1910s. A dog is on the ground underneath the aircraft.
Inscription on envelope: "B[illegible] + Brookins / Field Glendale /…
Photograph of Ralph Newcomb (far right), Walter Brookins (center), and others with a LePère aircraft, circa 1918. The inscription notes that the aircraft was built for L. C. Brand, likely Leslie Coombs Brand.Inscription on verso: "Le Pere / Venice,…
Photograph of Ralph Newcomb (center), Al Wilson, and another man standing near an unidentified aircraft, Bakersfield, California, circa 1918.Inscription on verso: "Al Wilson and Ralph Newcomb / Bakersfield Calif / 1918."
Photograph of Ralph Newcomb (center) and others with an unidentified aircraft, Bakersfield, California, December 22, 1918.Inscription on verso: "Short -- Wilson and myself at Bakersfield / Dec. 22nd, 1918."