Katherine Stinson with Barney Oldfield at Ascot Speedway, Los Angeles, California, November 29, 1917
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Two celebrity daredevils meet in this 1917 photo. Barney Oldfield raced bicycles before moving to automobiles in 1902. He traveled the country staging exhibition races for enthusiastic crowds. Katherine Stinson earned her pilot's license at age 21 and began exhibition flying in 1913. The petite Stinson performed difficult stunts with ease and charmed the press who dubbed her the "Flying Schoolgirl."
Two celebrity daredevils meet in this 1917 photo. Barney Oldfield raced bicycles before moving to automobiles in 1902. He traveled the country staging exhibition races for enthusiastic crowds. Katherine Stinson earned her pilot's license at age 21 and began exhibition flying in 1913. The petite Stinson performed difficult stunts with ease and charmed the press who dubbed her the "Flying Schoolgirl."
Artifact
Negative (Photograph)
Subject Date
29 November 1917
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
2009.103.N.223.10
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 1 in
Width: 1.5 in
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