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Title: Betsy Woodward, aviatrix
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection;
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1947
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.
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Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Pictured is 16-year-old aviatrix, Betsy Woodward, who broke the youth altitude record on July 4, 1947 and qualified for the Northrup Youth Award. Here she is seen sitting inside the cockpit of her plane, with a sombrero dangling from her neck. Photograph circa 1947.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print : b&w ; 26 x 21 cm.
Identifier: 00156666
Valley Times Collection;
HCNVT_ d040_ f12_ i31
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/129474
Subject: Aeronautics--Competitions
Aeronautics--Records
Women air pilots
Air pilots
Airplanes
Young women
San Fernando Valley (Calif.)
Portrait photographs
Time Period: 1941-1950

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