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Title: Pilot Bessie Coleman, view 3
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 192?
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Bessie Coleman (1896-1926) was the first African American woman to earn an aviator's license. Originally from Atlanta, Texas, Coleman moved to Chicago in 1915, where she first learned about flying from pilots returning from World War I. Gender and racial prejudice in the United States prevented Coleman for studying aviation, so she traveled to France, where she optained an international aviation license from the Fe´de´ration Ae´ronautique Internationale. To make a living as a pilot, Coleman did barnstorming, or performed in airshows as a stunt pilot. Coleman was killed when her plane malfunctioned.
Pilot Bessie Coleman in her complete aviation outfit in what appears to be an airfield.; For the first photograph in this series, see image 00001187.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00077727
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Transportation-Aviation-Personalities-Coleman, Bessie.; A-000-527.3 4x5
CARL0000078595
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/110827
Subject: Coleman, Bessie,--1892-1926
Women air pilots

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