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[Miss Ruth Law, aviator, full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly right, carrying two boxes, one the map case she designed] / Herbert Photos, New York. – Antique Wall Map

[Miss Ruth Law, aviator, full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly right, carrying two boxes, one the map case she designed] / Herbert Photos, New York., [1916] — historic photograph
[Miss Ruth Law, aviator, full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly right, carrying two boxes, one the map case she designed] / Herbert Photos, New York., [1916]. Historic photograph from the New York City collection.

(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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[Miss Ruth Law, aviator, full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly right, carrying two boxes, one the map case she designed] / Herbert Photos, New York.

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Ruth Law stands for the camera carrying two boxes, one of them a map case she designed herself, a detail that suits a pilot who had to navigate long distances. Herbert Photos of New York made the portrait in 1916, probably not long after Law's record-setting flight from Chicago to Hornell, New York. Few women of the period flew at all, and Law became one of the best-known aviators of the 1910s, drawing crowds at exhibitions across the country. The picture presents her less as a daredevil than as a working professional with the tools of her trade.

Created / published[1916]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1910-1920.Photographic prints 1910-1920.
NotesProbably taken after her record breaking long-distance flight from Chicago to Hornell, N.Y.
SubjectsLaw, Ruth,--b. 1887. Air pilots--American--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,270 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-182563

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