Matilde Moisant's 1911 trophy for record flying altitutde will be sent to the Smithsonian, La Crescenta, 1935

Title: Matilde Moisant's 1911 trophy for record flying altitutde will be sent to the Smithsonian, La Crescenta, 1935
Date Created: March 24, 1935
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Moisant stands beside a small pile of rocks, examining the flowers on a branch.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Woman's Air Trophy Sent Smithsonian Institution," Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar 1935: 29.
Moisant won the trophy in 1911 for obtaining record altitude for a woman of the time. It will be loaned to the institution for a temporary time. Now she spends her days in the garden of her valley home and visiting the family ranch in San Salvador.
Matilde Josephine Moisant was an American pioneer aviator. She was the second woman in the United States to get a pilot's license. (Wikipedia)
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Moisant, Matilde La Crescenta 2nd woman in U.S. to obtain flyer's license Designed her own flying clothes. Aviatrix 1935

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Subjects: Air pilots--American--California--La Crescenta
Gardens--California--La Crescenta
Names: Moisant, Matilde, 1878-1964
Location: La Crescenta (Calif.)
Resource type: still image

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local identifier: uclamss_1429_6423
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cwn31
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