Photograph of a group of other men standing with a Standard J-1 aircraft of the Gates Flying Circus, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, circa 1925. Clyde Pangborn is fifth from left.Inscription on verso: "Winston Salem, N.C."
Photograph of a group of men posing with a Standard J-1 aircraft of the Gates Flying Circus, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, circa 1925. Clyde Pangborn is on the far left, second row.Inscription on verso: "Winston Salem, N.C."
Photograph of Clyde Pangborn (center, standing) with a group of Standard J-1 aircraft of the Gates Flying Circus, Birmingham, Alabama, circa 1925. The Texaco logo is painted on the planes' fuselages.
Inscription on verso: "Birmingham, Ala."
Stamped…
Photograph of eight men and a dog standing in front of several Standard J-1 aircraft of the Gates Flying Circus, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, circa 1925. From left to right: Freddy Lund, Billy Brock, Bill Wunderlich, George Daws, Chance Walker,…
Photograph of Tommy Thompson, a Gates Flying Circus pilot, sitting in the cockpit of an airplane, circa 1923-1924.Inscription on verso: "Tommy Thompson. He is up around Salt Lake now I think. He left us a year ago. With Gates Flying Circus 1923-1924.…
Photograph of Hubert Kittle surrounded by a crowd of people as he climbs out of his crashed Standard J-1 aircraft, California, March 25, 1923.
Inscription: "From Venice, Calif. to this. 'Ain't' it 'Hell' Old Pal Thomas we'll do better next time. H.…
Photograph of Clyde Pangborn (left), Wesley May (center), and Lowell Yerex (right) inspecting a parachute and rope ladder before a barnstorming performance in San Francisco, California, circa 1922. A Curtiss JN-4 Jenny aircraft is in the…
Photograph of Clyde Pangborn (right) and Ivan R. Gates (left), circa 1922.
Embossed: "Kessler, Johnstown, Pa."
Inscription on verso: "Ivan R. Gates & Clyde E. Pangborn. Circa 1922."
Photograph of Olen Honberger, a Gates Flying Circus stuntman, leaning on the propeller of an airplane, circa 1920s.Inscription on verso: "Olen Honberger. He learned wing-walking with me. You saw him at Spokane when those two fellows were killed."
Photograph of William S. "Bill" Brock, a Gates Flying Circus pilot, in front of aircraft, circa early 1920s.Inscription on verso: "Billy Brock; William S. (Bill) Brock; Pilot - 'Gates Flying Circus.' (Joined in New Orleans). Joined [blank]. Left…