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Clipping, "Taking undue liberties with the solar system," from Mid-Week Pictorial, July 31, 1924. Article features a captioned image of stunt pilots Clyde Pangborn and Billy Brooks performing during a fireworks exhibition over New Orleans, Louisiana.…

Photograph of Rosalie Gordon's rescue after her parachute became entangled in the landing gear of a Standard J-1 aircraft, Houston, Texas, March 1924. Gordon hangs beneath Clyde Pangborn and Milton Girten's plane while a second J-1, piloted by Freddy…

Booklet, "Gates' Flying Circus: Catalogue and Price List Exhibitions," circa 1922-1923. Contains exhibition information for the Gates' Flying Circus, spectator testimonials, and a biography of Clyde Pangborn. Twenty (20) pages.

Photograph of Clyde Pangborn falling from a rope ladder attached to a low-flying Curtiss JN-4 Jenny during a performance in Coronado, California, May 16, 1920. Pangborn was attempting an auto-to-airplane transfer stunt when he lost his grip and…

Photograph of Clyde Pangborn (right) and Hugh Herndon (left) standing next to "Miss Veedol," a Bellanca Skyrocket CH-400 aircraft (tail number NR796W), after the airplane's belly-landing in Wenatchee, Washington, October 5, 1931.Inscription: "Simmer…

Photograph of Clyde Pangborn in flight gear standing by the wing of an aircraft, circa 1918.Inscription: "Clyde E. (Upside down) Pangborn."Inscription on verso: "1918."

Admission application for United States Naval Reserve Class A-V(T), filled out by Clyde Pangborn, September 7, 1934. Includes a photograph of Pangborn. Two (2) pages.Item included in Clyde Pangborn's officer service record.

Photograph of (from left to right) Freddy Lund, Rosalie Gordon, Milton Girten, Tommy Thompson, and Clyde Pangborn standing next to a Standard J-1 aircraft, Houston, Texas, 1924. Image was taken after Gordon's rescue; during a parachute jump, her…

Photograph of a Great Northern Railway window display featuring Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon's trans-Pacific flight, New York, New York, circa 1930s. The display includes photographs of Pangborn and Herndon and a poem about visiting Wenatchee,…

Western Union collection card for Clyde Pangborn, circa 1933-1934.