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Group portrait of eight women pilots before they leave Palm Springs for 1948 Powder Puff Derby

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Title: Group portrait of eight women pilots before they leave Palm Springs for 1948 Powder Puff Derby
Date Created and/or Issued: June 1, 1948
1948-06-01
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: ALL SET -- Ready to leave Palm Springs Airport in a cross-country race to Miami are, from left, Mary Nelson, Jeanne d'Ambly, Dorothy Krovoza, Darlene Thurmond, Frances Nolde, Claire McMillen, Helen Greinke and Betty Loufek. The coast-to-coast "lipstick derby" is to end at Amelia Earhart Field, scene of all-women air show.
Type: image
Format: b&w negative
Identifier: uclalat_1429_b41_51998-1
ark:/21198/zz0002qvcb
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Youth
Sports
Transcontinental flights
Women air pilots--United States
Nolde, Frances
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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