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Photograph of Clyde Pangborn (left), Alfred E. Lambla (center), and Ralph Reed (right) on a beach in Los Angeles, California, circa 1921. The men are gathered around a Union Garage tow car parked near a Curtiss JN-4 Jenny aircraft. Note that the inscription misidentifies Lambla as Barney Oldfield.Inscription on verso: "Clyde Pangborn, Barney Oldfield [sic], Ralph Reed on beach. Los Angeles, about…
Photograph of Clyde Pangborn falling from a rope ladder attached to a low-flying Curtiss JN-4 Jenny during a performance in Coronado, California, May 16, 1920. Pangborn was attempting an auto-to-airplane transfer stunt when he lost his grip and fell.Inscription: "Clyde Pangborn falling at Coronado Tent City, May 16, 1920. © Harold A. Taylor Co. San Diego and Coronado."
Photograph of Clyde Pangborn falling from a rope ladder attached to a low-flying Curtiss JN-4 Jenny during a performance in Coronado, California, May 16, 1920. Pangborn was attempting an auto-to-airplane transfer stunt when he lost his grip and fell.
Photograph of Clyde Pangborn hanging from the underside of a Curtiss JN-4 Jenny aircraft during a barnstorming performance in San Diego, California, circa 1920. The inscription notes that the plane is piloted by Ralph Reed.Inscription on verso: "Clyde E. Pangborn, Wing Walker. Ralph A. Reed – pilot. Over San Diego. 1920."
Photograph of Clyde Pangborn climbing a rope ladder attached to a low-flying Curtiss JN-4 Jenny aircraft during an auto-to-airplane transfer stunt, California, circa 1921. "Savage Tires" is painted on the plane's wings.
Photograph of Clyde Pangborn performing a wing-walking stunt on a Curtiss JN-4 Jenny aircraft, circa 1920. The inscription notes that the plane is piloted by Ralph Reed.Inscription on verso: "OX-5 Curtiss Jenney [Jenny]. Clyde Pangborn on wing. Ralph Reed, pilot. At San Diego, Ca., circa 1920."
Photograph of Clyde Pangborn performing a wing-walking stunt on a Curtiss JN-4 Jenny aircraft, circa 1920. The inscription notes that the plane is piloted by Ralph Reed.Inscription on verso: "Clyde E. Pangborn, Wing Walker. Ralph A. Reed – pilot. Over San Diego. 1920."
Photograph of Clyde Pangborn (left), Alfred E. Lambla (center), and Ralph Reed (right) posing with a tow car on beach in Los Angeles, California, circa 1921. A Curtiss JN-4 Jenny is visible in the background.Inscription on verso: "Pang."
Photograph of Ralph A. Newcomb and two others with a Curtiss JN-4 Jenny aircraft, California, 1919.Inscription on verso: "Start of first flight to Bishop, Calif. via Death Valley / 1919 -- Davis and Newcomb."