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[Clyde Pangborn, Wesley May, and Lowell Yerex inspecting parachute and ladder]
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]
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…
[Wing-walking stunt on Standard J-1]
Photograph of an unidentified man performing a wing-walking stunt on a Standard (NJ) J-1 aircraft (tail number 14), circa 1920s. The Gates Flying Circus logo is painted on the tail.Stamped on verso: "Francis E. Price, Journalistic and Commercial Photographer, Sixth Floor Constitution Building. Atlanta, GA."
[Clyde Pangborn and Ivan R. Gates]
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."
[Clyde Pangborn with Standard J-1 aircraft]
Photograph of Clyde Pangborn (center, standing) with a group of Standard J-1 aircraft of the Gates Flying Circus, Birmingham, Alabama, circa 1925. The Texaco logo is painted on the planes' fuselages. Inscription on verso: "Birmingham, Ala." Stamped on verso: "Lollar's. B'Ham, Ala."
[Clyde Pangborn and others with Standard J-1 aircraft]
Photograph of eight men and a dog standing in front of several Standard J-1 aircraft of the Gates Flying Circus, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, circa 1925. From left to right: Freddy Lund, Billy Brock, Bill Wunderlich, George Daws, Chance Walker, Aron Krantz, Jack Ashcraft, and Clyde Pangborn. Inscription: "Freddy Lund, Billy Brock, Bill Wunderlich, Geo Daws, Chance Walker, Aaron [sic] Krantz,…
[Clyde Pangborn and Aron "Duke" Krantz with Standard J-1]
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…
[Clyde Pangborn and Judge the Dog with Standard J-1 aircraft]
Photograph of Clyde Pangborn and Judge the Dog in front of a Standard J-1 aircraft (tail number 12) of the Gates Flying Circus, circa 1920s. The Texaco logo is painted on the plane's fuselage.