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

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…

[William P. Lear and Amelia Earhart] (Item)

Photograph of William P. Lear and Amelia Earhart, Roosevelt Field, New York, circa 1935.Inscription on verso: "(1935) / 2 yrs. before she crashed in the Pacific /Taken at Roosevelt Field, N.Y / Amelia Earhart and Lear / (She died July 2, 1937)."Typed caption on verso: "In 1935, Bill Lear extolls the merits of his new aircraft radio transmitter to Amelia Earhart."

[Elinor Smith's Bellanca Skyrocket CH-400 aircraft after crashing upside down] (Item)

Photograph of Elinor Smith's Bellanca Skyrocket CH-400 aircraft after crashing upside down near Mitchel Field, Long Island, New York, March 27, 1931.Typed caption on verso: "Noseover of Miss Elinor Smith's monoplane [cut off] / March 27, 1931. After attempt by the fam[cut off] nineteen year old girl flyer to regain the women's altitude record. Near Mitchel Field."

Ruth Law in flight (Item)

Photograph of Ruth Law piloting her Curtiss Model D Headless aircraft, Hammondsport, New York, circa 1910s. Inscription: "Ruth Law, Hammondsport, N.Y., (Pioneer Days)." Caption on envelope: "Ruth Law in flight."