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Photograph of a Beech 18 aircraft (tail number N5621V) in flight over water, 1930s-1960s. Inscription on verso: "Beechcraft 'Volpar.'"

Photograph of Clyde Pangborn (left) and Hugh Herndon (right) standing next to a "Miss Veedol," a Bellanca Skyrocket CH-400 aircraft (tail number NR796W), 1931. Herndon holds a sextant.Typed caption on verso: "Herndon-Pangborn Round-the-World-Flight.…

Photograph of (from left to right) Clyde Pangborn, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Lewis A. Yancey, and Hugh Herndon in the billiard room of the Governor's Mansion in San Juan, Puerto Rico, circa 1931. Typed caption on verso: "574605--Watch your credit.…

Photograph of Clyde Pangborn (left) and Hugh Herndon (right) standing in front of "Miss Veedol," a Bellanca Skyrocket CH-400 aircraft (tail number NR796W), circa 1931. Both men wear flight helmets and goggles.Inscription on verso: "This picture was…

Photograph of Clyde Pangborn (left) and Hugh Herndon (right) standing next to "Miss Veedol," a Bellanca Skyrocket CH-400 aircraft (tail number NR796W), circa 1931. Herndon holds a sextant.

Photograph of Clyde Pangborn (right) and Hugh Herndon (left) holding birds, circa 1931. "Miss Veedol," a Bellanca Skyrocket CH-400 aircraft (tail number NR796W), is in the background.

Photograph of Clyde Pangborn looking at the propeller and engine of "Miss Veedol," a Bellanca Skyrocket CH-400 aircraft (tail number NR796W), circa 1931. Clyde Pangborn's business card is attached to the back of the image.Business card on verso:…

Photograph of Clyde Pangborn (right), Bert Acosta (center), and Hugh Herndon (left) shaking hands in front of "Miss Veedol," a Bellanca Skyrocket CH-400 aircraft (tail number NR796W), at Roosevelt Field, New York, circa 1931.Typed caption on verso:…

Photograph of Clyde Pangborn (left) and Hugh Herndon (right) relaxing on beds, likely in a hotel room in Washington State, circa 1931.Embossed: "Lester A. Smith, Wenatchee."

Photograph of Hugh Herndon (right) and Clyde Pangborn (left, standing on airplane) working on "Miss Veedol," a Bellanca Skyrocket CH-400 aircraft (tail number NR796W), in a hangar in Japan, circa 1931. Inscription on verso: "No 1. Upper – Pangborn.…