[Crowd with Elinor Smith's Bellanca Skyrocket CH-400 aircraft]

Photograph of a crowd with Elinor Smith's Bellanca Skyrocket CH-400 aircraft, Mitchel Field, Long Island, New York, March 27, 1931. The verso caption notes that the photo was taken after the aircraft was damaged during Smith's attempt at the women's altitude record.

Typed caption on verso: "Bellanca monoplane after being cracked up by Miss Elinor Smith, while attempting to break womens altitude record, March 27, 1931, near Mitchel Field, L. I., N. Y."