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Clipping, "Taking undue liberties with the solar system," from Mid-Week Pictorial, July 31, 1924. Article features a captioned image of stunt pilots Clyde Pangborn and Billy Brooks performing during a fireworks exhibition over New Orleans, Louisiana. Verso includes an article on Broadway actresses.
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 standing on the back of a moving car during an attempted auto-to-airplane transfer stunt, Coronado, California, circa 1920s.
Photograph of Clyde Pangborn's Curtiss JN-4 Jenny aircraft crashed nose-first into the ground, circa 1920s. "Pangborn" is written on the plane's wings.
[Clyde Pangborn on fuselage]
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Photograph of Clyde Pangborn straddling the fuselage of an unidentified aircraft, circa 1920s.Inscription on verso: "Clyde Pangborn."
Photograph of Clyde Pangborn (left), Wesley May (center), and Lowell Yerex (right) inspecting a parachute and rope ladder before a barnstorming performance in San Francisco, California, circa 1922. A Curtiss JN-4 Jenny aircraft is in the background.
Inscription on verso: "Pang, May, Yerex. SF. 1922."
Typed caption on verso: "Inspecting exhibition type of parachute and the plane-change ladder.…
Photograph of Hubert Kittle surrounded by a crowd of people as he climbs out of his crashed Standard J-1 aircraft, California, March 25, 1923.
Inscription: "From Venice, Calif. to this. 'Ain't' it 'Hell' Old Pal Thomas we'll do better next time. H. M. Kittle. 3-25-1923."
Inscription on verso: "Hubert Kettle's [Kittle's] crash in LA."
Stamped on verso: "Warning: This picture is supplied by…
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.