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[Clyde Pangborn, Wesley May, and Lowell Yerex inspecting parachute and ladder] (Item)

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.…

[Hubert Kittle and crowd with crashed Standard J-1] (Item)

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…

William S. "Bill" Brock (Item)

Photograph of William S. "Bill" Brock, a Gates Flying Circus pilot, in front of aircraft, circa early 1920s.Inscription on verso: "Billy Brock; William S. (Bill) Brock; Pilot - 'Gates Flying Circus.' (Joined in New Orleans). Joined [blank]. Left 1924. Later - flew U.S. Mail. Later - flew 'Stinson Detroiters' with Wm. F. Schlee, from Newfoundland to Japan - 12,295 mi in Aug. 1927. Called 'The Pride…

Tommy Thompson (Item)

Photograph of Tommy Thompson, a Gates Flying Circus pilot, sitting in the cockpit of an airplane, circa 1923-1924.Inscription on verso: "Tommy Thompson. He is up around Salt Lake now I think. He left us a year ago. With Gates Flying Circus 1923-1924. Flew air mail between Salt lake & Cheyenne. UAL pilot 1933-37. Crashed DC3 at S.F. International Airport 2/10/37. All aboard killed."

Olen Honberger (Item)

Photograph of Olen Honberger, a Gates Flying Circus stuntman, leaning on the propeller of an airplane, circa 1920s.Inscription on verso: "Olen Honberger. He learned wing-walking with me. You saw him at Spokane when those two fellows were killed."

[Clyde Pangborn and Ivan R. Gates] (Item)

Photograph of Clyde Pangborn (right) and Ivan R. Gates (left), circa 1922. Embossed: "Kessler, Johnstown, Pa." Inscription on verso: "Ivan R. Gates & Clyde E. Pangborn. Circa 1922."

Lloyd Geraldson (Item)

Photograph of Lloyd Geraldson, a Gates Flying Circus stuntman, standing in front of an aircraft, circa 1920s. Inscription on verso: "Lloyd Geraldson. Stuntman with Gates Flying Circus. Became airline pilot after leaving Circus in 1923; alive somewhere as of 1970."

[Clyde Pangborn and Aron "Duke" Krantz with Standard J-1] (Item)

Photograph of Clyde Pangborn (left) and another man, possibly Aron F. "Duke" Krantz, standing in front of Pangborn's Standard J-1 aircraft in Audubon Park, New Orleans, Louisiana, circa 1920s. The Gates Flying Circus logo is painted on the plane's tail, and the Texaco logo is painted on the fuselage. Inscription on verso: "Taken in New Orleans Audubon Park day before Krantz made night parachute…