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Rosalie Gordon caught on landing gear
Photograph of Rosalie Gordon's rescue after her parachute became entangled in the landing gear of a Standard J-1 aircraft, Houston, Texas, March 1924. Gordon hangs beneath Clyde Pangborn and Milton Girten's plane while a second J-1, piloted by Freddy Lund and Tommy Thompson, attempts to reach her.Inscription on verso: "Rosalie Gordon caught on landing gear. Picture taken during rescue."
After the rescue
Photograph of (from left to right) Freddy Lund, Rosalie Gordon, Milton Girten, Tommy Thompson, and Clyde Pangborn standing next to a Standard J-1 aircraft, Houston, Texas, 1924. Image was taken after Gordon's rescue; during a parachute jump, her parachute became entangled in Pangborn's landing gear.Inscription on verso: "After the rescue. Lund, Rosalie, Girten, Thompson, Pang."
[Halden H. Emrick and Peggy Emrick with Standard J-1 aircraft]
Photograph of Halden H. Emrick and Peggy Emrick with a Standard J-1 aircraft, Cleveland, Ohio, circa 1927.Inscription on verso: "Cleveland Ohio / 1927 / Hal & Peg."