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[USS Los Angeles airship]
Photograph of the USS Los Angeles airship (ZR-3) in flight, 1920s-1930s.

[Vance Flying Wing being refueled]
Photograph of a Vance Flying Wing aircraft being refueled, circa 1930s. Inscription on verso: "Vance Flying Wing."

[Vance Flying Wing]
Photograph of a Vance Flying Wing aircraft (tail number NR-12700) parked by a hangar, circa 1930s. Inscription on verso: "Vance Flying Wing."

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

[Window display featuring Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon's trans-Pacific flight]
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,…

[Wing-walking stunt on Standard J-1]
Photograph of an unidentified man performing a wing-walking stunt on a Standard (NJ) J-1 aircraft (tail number 14), circa 1920s. The Gates Flying Circus logo is painted on the tail.Stamped on verso: "Francis E. Price, Journalistic and Commercial…

[Wingless Piper PA-12 being loaded onto Northrop C-125 Raider]
Photograph of a wingless Piper PA-12 being loaded onto a U.S. Air Force Northrop C-125 Raider aircraft, circa 1950s. Inscription on verso: "Northrop C125D." Stamped on verso: "Frank Ambrose Aviation Company, Inc. [address in Miami, Florida]."

[Woman]
Photographic portrait of an unidentified women, possibly Opal Pangborn, circa 1910s.

[Women in Curtiss JN-4 Jenny]
Photograph of three unidentified women in a Curtiss JN-4 Jenny aircraft, circa 1920s-1930s.

After the rescue
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…
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