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Matilde Moisant's 1911 trophy for record flying altitutde will be sent to the Smithsonian, La Crescenta, 1935

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Title: Matilde Moisant's 1911 trophy for record flying altitutde will be sent to the Smithsonian, La Crescenta, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: March 24, 1935
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
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Woman's Air Trophy Sent Smithsonian Institution," Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar 1935: 29.
Moisant won the trophy in 1911 for obtaining record altitude for a woman of the time. It will be loaned to the institution for a temporary time. Now she spends her days in the garden of her valley home and visiting the family ranch in San Salvador.
Moisant stands beside a small pile of rocks, examining the flowers on a branch.
Matilde Josephine Moisant was an American pioneer aviator. She was the second woman in the United States to get a pilot's license. (Wikipedia)
Text from negative sleeve: Moisant, Matilde La Crescenta 2nd woman in U.S. to obtain flyer's license Designed her own flying clothes. Aviatrix 1935
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_6423
ark:/21198/zz002cwn31
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Gardens--California--La Crescenta
Air pilots--American--California--La Crescenta
Moisant, Matilde, 1878-1964
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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