Elinor Smith during her Record Woman's Endurance Flight, 1929
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Amelia Earhart may have been better known by the public, but fellow aviators voted Elinor Smith "Best Female Pilot" in 1930. Smith, who set a series of endurance, speed, and altitude records for a female pilot, was not without fame. In 1934 she became the first woman to appear on a Wheaties box. The press dubbed her the "Flying Flapper."
Amelia Earhart may have been better known by the public, but fellow aviators voted Elinor Smith "Best Female Pilot" in 1930. Smith, who set a series of endurance, speed, and altitude records for a female pilot, was not without fame. In 1934 she became the first woman to appear on a Wheaties box. The press dubbed her the "Flying Flapper."
Artifact
Photographic print
Date Made
23 April 1929
Subject Date
23 April 1929
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On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
84.1.1629.156
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 8 in
Width: 10 in
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