Group portrait of eight women pilots before they leave Palm Springs for 1948 Powder Puff Derby

Item Overview

Title: Group portrait of eight women pilots before they leave Palm Springs for 1948 Powder Puff Derby
Date Created: June 1, 1948
Date: 1948-06-01
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Caption: ALL SET -- Ready to leave Palm Springs Airport in a cross-country race to Miami are, from left, Mary Nelson, Jeanne d'Ambly, Dorothy Krovoza, Darlene Thurmond, Frances Nolde, Claire McMillen, Helen Greinke and Betty Loufek. The coast-to-coast "lipstick derby" is to end at Amelia Earhart Field, scene of all-women air show.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 photograph
Dimensions: 10 x 12.5 cm.
Medium: b&w negative

Keywords

Genre: news photographs
Group portraits
Names: Nolde, Frances
Location: Palm Springs (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Youth
Sports
Transcontinental flights
Women air pilots--United States

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Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclalat_1429_b41_51998-1
ARK: ark:/21198/zz0002qvcb
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Rights Country: US
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