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Eddie, Marjorie and Katherine Stinson - ca 1915

 

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Calgary Alberta on 9 July 1918 just prior to her air mail flight to Edmonton. This was the first ever air mail flight in Western Canada.

 

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A final photo of Katherine Simpson before she ended her flying career — on June 1, 1918, just home from the war, she had just flown her plane from Chicago to Sheepshead Bay Speedway, Brooklyn, New York.

 

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Katherine Stinson in her airplane racing Dario Resta in his car at Sheepshead Bay Racecourse in the “Earth and Air Match,” May 6, 1916, Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn.

 

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Katherine Stinson before her Wright “B” at the Montana State Fair in 1913. She flew bags of mail from the fairgrounds to drop on Helena’s downtown post office, thus becoming the first person to deliver airmail in Montana

 

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Katherine Stinson in her specially-built Partridge-Keller “Looper” biplane, c. 1916.

Katherine Stinson standing in front of her Partridge & Keller biplane, sporting her daring dress style — the conservatives of the day condemned her act as “pants on a woman!

Katherine Stinson wins the race against Dario Resta, at Sheepshead Bay racetrack, Brooklyn, New York City on May 13, 1916

 

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Photograph of Katherine Stinson in Tokyo, c. 1916, priming the engine of her airplane.

 

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A copy of a 1916 photo hanging in the Stinson Municipal Airport terminal shows Katherine Stinson standing next to a plane at what was then Stinson Field.

 

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The flying jacket and gloves once belonging to Katherine Stinson are on display in a glass case at Stinson Middle School

The flying hat and gloves once belonging to Katherine Stinson are on display in the hallway at Stinson Middle School.

n 1916, Katherine Stinson was declared a "Princess of the Sioux" under the sponsorship of Chief Waukessa in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada.

Katherine Stinson makes her way through the crowds in Presidio, California, after setting a national record for distance and duration — 610 miles in nine hours, ten minutes — in 1917.

 

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Katherine Stinson (right) at the controls with her younger brother Jack

 

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Katherine Stinson preparing biplane for takeoff, 1913

 

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Katherine Stinson Securing Magnesium Flares to Her Laird Biplane at the Tri-State Fair, October 1916

Katherine Stinson and Elfreida Mais on the Racetrack during the Tri-State Fair, Memphis, TN, October 1916

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."