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[Walter Brookins and another man at controls of unidentified aircraft]
Photograph of Walter Brookins (right) and another man at the controls of an unidentified aircraft, California, circa 1900s-1910s. A dog is on the ground underneath the aircraft. Inscription on envelope: "B[illegible] + Brookins / Field Glendale / Brookins in Mercer."
[Pilot with crashed aircraft]
Photograph of a pilot with a crashed aircraft, circa 1910s.Inscription on envelope: "Airplane wrecks."
[Pilot in unidentified aircraft]
Photograph of a pilot in an unidentified aircraft, circa 1910s.Inscription on envelope: "G. Lambert / Luke Field / T.H."
[Walter Brookins and Mabel Van Buren in unidentified aircraft]
Photograph of pilot Walter Brookins and passenger Mabel Van Buren in an unidentified aircraft, Griffith Park, Los Angeles, California, 1915.Inscription on verso: "Mable [Mabel] Van Buren / Walter Brookins / Flying at Griffith Park L.A. / 1915."Inscription on envelope: "Griffith Park Aviation Field / 1914-15 / and mud field at Santa Monica / Lawrence Brown did that job too [sic] my plane."
[Aircraft taking off from ship]
Composite photograph of an aircraft taking off from a ship, along with an image of a woman, a man in flight gear, and a ship's captain, circa 1910s.Inscription on envelope: "4 cylinder motorcycle -- Built in B[Illegible] / Pope Toledo would-be racing car / DeMille Field."Typed on envelope: "Mr. Ralph Newcomb / [address in Pacific Grove, California]."
[Louis Paulhan piloting Farman aircraft above treetops]
Photograph of Louis Paulhan piloting a Farman aircraft above the treetops, circa 1910.Inscription on envelope: "Louis Paulhan / Farman Biplane with Gnome Rotary motor / 50 HP / First flight in [S.F.?] / 1910."