Eddie Stinson, Ruth Elder and Henry Ford, February 1928
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Pilot Ruth Elder poses with Eddie Stinson and Henry Ford in this February 1928 photograph. Four months earlier, Elder made an unsuccessful attempt to be the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean in American Girl, a Stinson Detroiter airplane built by Eddie Stinson's company. Henry Ford had his own aircraft manufacturing division, building Ford Tri-Motors, at the time.
Pilot Ruth Elder poses with Eddie Stinson and Henry Ford in this February 1928 photograph. Four months earlier, Elder made an unsuccessful attempt to be the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean in American Girl, a Stinson Detroiter airplane built by Eddie Stinson's company. Henry Ford had his own aircraft manufacturing division, building Ford Tri-Motors, at the time.
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
February 1928
Keywords
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
84.1.1660.P.188.3357
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 8.25 in
Width: 10 in
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