Harriet Quimby – Antique Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Harriet Quimby, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Harriet Quimby
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Harriet Quimby, the aviator shown here, was photographed around 1911, the year she became the first woman in the United States to earn a pilot's license from the Aero Club of America. Her name appears in the Bain News Service collection, a large body of newspaper photographs that documents early twentieth-century news. Quimby later became the first woman to fly solo across the English Channel in 1912, and she died that same year in a crash at a Boston-area air meet. The portrait captures her at the start of a career that drew wide press attention to women in flight.
| Created / published | c1911. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1910-1920.Photographic prints 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: PI; Women; Shelf. |
| Subjects | Quimby, Harriet,--1875-1912. Aeronautics--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,090 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-118960 |
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