[Lawrence Brown and Ruth Wightman with unidentified aircraft]

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[Lawrence Brown and Ruth Wightman with unidentified aircraft]

Description

Photograph of pilots Lawrence Brown (left) and Ruth Wightman (right) with an unidentified aircraft, circa 1910s-1920s. A clipping about Brown and Wingman is glued to the image.

Clipping text: "Lawrence Brown, of Venice, [crossed out: 'Illinois'] [handwritten: 'Cal'], has been doing some excellent exhibition flying in the Middle West during the past week. / C. O. Prest, the instructor of the Riverside Aircraft Co., Riverside, Cali., has a large class of students on hand. Miss Ruth Wightman promises to be one of his star pupils."

Part of a set of album pages containing scenes related to early aviation and automobile races, circa 1900s-1920s.

Date

1910s-1920s circa

Extent

1 photograph : print, black and white ; 7 x 5 in

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Bibliographic Citation

The Ralph A. Newcomb Early California Aviation Photograph Collection/The Museum of Flight

Identifier

2023-08-30_image_085