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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 standing on the back of a moving car during an attempted auto-to-airplane transfer stunt, Coronado, California, circa 1920s.
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 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."