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Photograph album pages containing scenes related to early aviation and automobile races, circa 1900s-1920s. Some images are damaged.
Photograph of Ruth Wightman (at aircraft controls), Ralph Newcomb (seated on pontoon), and others with an unidentified seaplane, circa 1910s.Part of a set of album pages containing scenes related to early aviation and automobile races, circa 1900s-1920s.
Photograph of pilots Lawrence Brown (left) and Ruth Wightman (right) with an unidentified aircraft, circa 1910s-1920s. A clipping about Brown and Wingman is glued to the image.Clipping text: "Lawrence Brown, of Venice, [crossed out: 'Illinois'] [handwritten: 'Cal'], has been doing some excellent exhibition flying in the Middle West during the past week. / C. O. Prest, the instructor of the…
Photograph of (from left to right) Fred Schiller, Ruth Wightman, and Edwin Musick at the Venice Flying School, California, circa 1918.
Part of a set of album pages containing scenes related to early aviation and automobile races, circa 1900s-1920s.
Photograph of three men and a woman in flight gear (possibly Florence Seidell) at a table, circa 1910s-1920s.
Part of a set of album pages containing scenes related to early aviation and automobile races, circa 1900s-1920s.
Photograph of Ruth Wightman at the controls of an unidentified seaplane, May 1913.Part of a set of album pages containing scenes related to early aviation and automobile races, circa 1900s-1920s.
Photograph of Ruth Wightman (left) with another woman and a dog, circa 1900s-1910s. Part of a set of album pages containing scenes related to early aviation and automobile races, circa 1900s-1920s.
Photograph of Ruth Wightman (right) and another woman, circa 1920s.
Photograph of Ruth Wightman (right) and another woman, circa 1920s.
Photograph of Ruth Wightman (right) and another woman, circa 1920s.