Items from Box 27, Folder 16 of the William P. and Moya Olsen Lear Papers, February 24, 1941. Contains a Lear Avia Corporation press release and photograph related to a British American Ambulance Corps (BAAC) flying tour, carried out by pilot Miriam…
Items from Box 27, Folder 21 of the William P. and Moya Olsen Lear Papers, April 2, 1941. Contains a Lear Avia Corporation press release and photograph related to the hiring of Dickey Meyer as a press liaison. The photograph depicts Meyer in a flight…
Photograph of pilot Betsy Ross using a Learadio portable receiver in the cockpit of her Taylorcraft aircraft, August 20, 1940. An accompanying press release describes Ross's recent flight from Harrisburg Pennsylvania State Airport, noted as the first…
Photograph of Sydney Nesbitt (left) presenting a Learadio Model APR-A portable receiver to Katherine Rawls Thompson, winner of the Alcazar Trophy Race, Miami, Florida, January 1941. An unidentified U.S. Marine Corps serviceman stands in the…
Photograph of Peggy Emrick with an unidentified aircraft, circa 1931.Inscription on verso: "Ran across these / Couldn't remember if you had any to remember the hop from K. C. to Cleveland / Sept 1931. Never will I forget it."
Photograph of (from left to right) Fred Schiller, Ruth Wightman, and Edwin Musick at the Venice Flying School, California, circa 1918.
Part of a set of album pages containing scenes related to early aviation and automobile races, circa 1900s-1920s.
Photograph of pilots Lawrence Brown (left) and Ruth Wightman (right) with an unidentified aircraft, circa 1910s-1920s. A clipping about Brown and Wingman is glued to the image.Clipping text: "Lawrence Brown, of Venice, [crossed out: 'Illinois']…
Photograph of Ruth Wightman at the controls of an unidentified seaplane, May 1913.Part of a set of album pages containing scenes related to early aviation and automobile races, circa 1900s-1920s.